Portrait Drawing with Charcoal and White Chalk
Portrait Drawing with Charcoal and White Chalk
AN ONLINE WORKSHOP
Instructor: Noah Buchanan
Originally held June 19 , 20 , 26 • 2021
This workshop was recorded and access to it can be purchased below.
This 3-Day Online Portrait Drawing in Charcoal and White Chalk, workshop will focus on Drawing with charcoal and white chalk on toned paper, applied to the subject matter of the human head. Students will learn subtractive methods of charcoal drawing: the illusion of volume and form will be initiated on the page through the reduction of a charcoal wash. Learning will also include how to model form with Charcoal and white chalk, as well as allowing the toned paper to create volume and form.
This workshop is a highly recommended to take subsequent to Buchanan’s workshop, Indirect Portrait Painting: Imprimatura and Velatura.
$50 off discount for purchasing two Buchanan workshops: NBTWO-#$%
This workshop will be taped. Registered artists will have access to review the tape for two weeks after completion.
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The reference: Students will draw from high resolution video footage (via Vimeo on our website) and high res photographic references of a studio model. Students will also observe live demonstration from the instructor, as well as receive direct feedback and critique from the instructor at multiple points during the creation of their own drawing. The skills developed in this workshop will enable students to make their own charcoal drawings from life or photographic reference. These skills will also serve as essential stage in making studies for paintings..
Indirect Portrait Painting: Imprimatura and Velatura: The drawing methods in this workshop will parallel the painting techniques of the subsequent workshop offered with Noah Buchanan in July 2021; Its is highly t is recommended that students apply their training from this workshop in his following Painting workshop.
There is a $50 discount for taking both. Simply enter the code NOAHBOTH21 at checkout, when you have put both in your shopping cart. . -
Noah Buchanan began his artistic studies in 1994 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied classical drawing and painting, as well as extensive studies in human anatomy. In 2002, he received a Masters of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art where he intensified his training in figure painting and anatomy with Martha Mayer Erlebacher and Steven Assael.
Noah Buchanan is represented by Dacia Gallery in New York, as well as Winfield Gallery in Carmel, CA. He has participated in exhibitions across the United States from New York to Los Angeles. Buchanan has exhibited internationally in London, Edinburgh, and Tokyo. His paintings and drawings are featured in private and public collections throughout the United States and Europe. Buchanan teaches painting and drawing at several colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
His work is based in the mythic, symbolic and heroic traditions of the figure. He is primarily interested in depicting the human figure as a vessel which confronts and grapples with the Divine.eived a Masters from the New York Academy, brings great depth. -
-Drawing Board
-Padding Behind Charcoal Drawing: Several Sheets of Regular Drawing Paper or Newsprint.
-1 Sheet of Zerkall German Ingres. Any neutral color/tone.
-Vine Charcoal: Nitram B and 2B recommended
-Vine Charcoal Holder
-Charcoal Pencils: Wolff's Carbon 2B and 4B Recommended.
-White Chalk Pencil: Carb Othello #100
-Kneaded Eraser.
-Factis Eraser Pencil (looks like a mechanical pencil, except as an eraser).
-Old, used bristle brushes for painting, various sizes (For Blending).
-Old, used sable or synthetic sable brushes for blending and subtracting charcoal.
-Hardware store bristle "chip" brush, inexpensive: 3" or 4"
-Measuring Stick: Can be small gauge knitting needle, wooden shishkabob skewer, or clipped off wire coat hanger. Needs to be skinny and straight.
-Sharpening Tools: Regular single sided razor blades (new); Sanding Block (recommended: Dry Wall Sanding sponge 120 grit)
-Easel: If Students do not have an easel for home use, the wall is recommended to use instead (in this case, students will forego the use of a drawing board and will pin/tape their drawing paper/padding to the wall). Please consider adequate set-up time for computers/devices in order to successfully use the wall as an easel while participating in the online workshop.
The reference:
Students will draw from high resolution video footage (via Vimeo on our website) and high res photographic references of a studio model. Students will also observe live demonstration from the instructor, as well as receive direct feedback and critique from the instructor at multiple points during the creation of their own drawing. The skills developed in this workshop will enable students to make their own charcoal drawings from life or photographic reference. These skills will also serve as essential stage in making studies for paintings..
Indirect Portrait Painting: Imprimatura and Velatura: The drawing methods in this workshop will parallel the painting techniques of the subsequent workshop offered with Noah Buchanan in July 2021; Its is highly t is recommended that students apply their training from this workshop in his following Painting workshop.
There is a $50 discount for taking both. Simply enter the code NOAHBOTH21 at checkout, when you have put both in your shopping cart. .
Noah Buchanan began his artistic studies in 1994 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied classical drawing and painting, as well as extensive studies in human anatomy. In 2002, he received a Masters of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art where he intensified his training in figure painting and anatomy with Martha Mayer Erlebacher and Steven Assael.
Noah Buchanan is represented by Dacia Gallery in New York, as well as Winfield Gallery in Carmel, CA. He has participated in exhibitions across the United States from New York to Los Angeles. Buchanan has exhibited internationally in London, Edinburgh, and Tokyo. His paintings and drawings are featured in private and public collections throughout the United States and Europe. Buchanan teaches painting and drawing at several colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
His work is based in the mythic, symbolic and heroic traditions of the figure. He is primarily interested in depicting the human figure as a vessel which confronts and grapples with the Divine.eived a Masters from the New York Academy, brings great depth.
-Drawing Board
-Padding Behind Charcoal Drawing: Several Sheets of Regular Drawing Paper or Newsprint.
-1 Sheet of Zerkall German Ingres. Any neutral color/tone.
-Vine Charcoal: Nitram HB and 2B recommended
-Vine Charcoal Holder
-Charcoal Pencils: Wolff's Carbon 2B and 4B Recommended.
-White Chalk Pencil: Carb Othello #100
-Kneaded Eraser.
-Factis Eraser Pencil (looks like a mechanical pencil, except as an eraser).
-Old, used bristle brushes for painting, various sizes (For Blending).
-Old, used sable or synthetic sable brushes for blending and subtracting charcoal.
-Hardware store bristle "chip" brush, inexpensive: 3" or 4"
-Measuring Stick: Can be small gauge knitting needle, wooden shishkabob skewer, or clipped off wire coat hanger. Needs to be skinny and straight.
-Sharpening Tools: Regular single sided razor blades (new); Sanding Block (recommended: Dry Wall Sanding sponge 120 grit)
-Easel: If Students do not have an easel for home use, the wall is recommended to use instead (in this case, students will forego the use of a drawing board and will pin/tape their drawing paper/padding to the wall). Please consider adequate set-up time for computers/devices in order to successfully use the wall as an easel while participating in the online workshop.
To see more of the instructor’s work using this method, click on the images.
