Famous painting - Pissarro

Description

Informations about the original painting

Impressionism

Impressionism came up in the second half of the 19th century (ie from 1850 onwards).

The painters didn't want to paint the bare object shapes and focused more on a picture-development with light and color. Although the images sometimes seem to be very realistic, the painters only set color areas and didn't paint a whole object.

You can see it in this painting:
- 'Rough' brush strokes are visible
- The person seems somehow realistic
- The details (eg, hands and ears ) are more 'rough' painted (it was simply the result of the painter’s color/light feeling)

I have drawn it like this…

I wanted to capture the typical Impressionism character of the painting with pencil, ie I wanted to draw the brush strokes, and I also wanted to create a realistic impression of the person.

I have chosen another processes (not my usually one), because this was the 'prototype' for an impressionistic drawing.

I have made the drawing without a preliminary drawing, line by line only with the grid-method. I used pencil and cardboard in the first step and modeled the contrast in a second step, with all my other tools.

In the first step the image is thus created from top to bottom .

In the second step, the contrasts are intensivied and araes are smoothed out.

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Steps

• The first three steps show the line wise development with the grid-method
• Bottom/right you can see a first shading step with more contrast and smooth areas
• At the bottom is the final drawing

final drawing

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Tools/Material