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Tonal Artwork

Artist: Venetia Norris, Title: (zoom in on) Pencil drawing Delphinium, (2011), Materials: pencil and silver leaf on fabriano paper, From: www.axisweb.org/artwork.aspx?workid=91670, Annotations: I find the cross hatching technique effective on this drawing of flowers, as the darker cross hatching shows the shadows and the light cross hatching shows the lighter aspects of the plant effectively, I would like to use cross hatching in future drawings to show a difference between other sketches I've done so they don't all look similar.

 



Artist: Tony Clark, Title: Unknown, (year unknown), Materials used: pencil and charcoal. From: www.artistsinfo.co.uk
Annotations: I find the use of tone really interesting as not only do the hands look accurate but the tone despite being one colour makes every hand look completely different due to the range of dark to light tonal shading. I could use this technique in my own drawings to highlight certain sections of a picture by using darker tone as shown with the face in the image.

Artist: William R Lethaby, Title: Drawing of the Entrance to the Chrysotriclinium, (1889), Materials used: pencil and black chalk. From: http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=60454&sos=4
Annotations: Although this is an architectural sketch and not of a real place the tone used on the columns and the shadows created under the arches make it look realistic.

Artist: Frida Kahlo, Title: My dress hangs there, (1933), Materials used: pencil and oil paint. From: http://www.cgfaonlineartmuseum.com/kahlo/p-kahlo10.htm
Annotations: I find the use of the tone really interesting especially how the dark tonal buildings of New York look harsh and cold again the warm light tonal shades of the dress (which represents everything that Kahlo misses about Mexico). I also like how a flat almost uninteresting tone is used on the nearly identical architecture whereas the dress varies in tone and depth possibly suggesting that that one dress from Mexico is far more vibrant than the whole of Kahlo's New York that is pictured. This picture makes me relate to the artist in how dull the landscape must have been for her compared to Mexico City, shown through the boring tones of grey and brown and the rubbish and sewage insinuated in the picture. I would like to use some of the aspects of this picture in future drawings I do such as varying tone to make certain things stick out and using materials such as oil paint which I haven't used before to get a dusky layered tonal effect.

Artist: Sir John Everett Millais, Title: Speak! Speak!, (1895), Materials used: Oil Paint. From: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-speak-speak-n01584
Annotations: I not too sure what's happening in this picture but the light tone of the woman at the end of the bed gives the impression she is either a ghost or a bride (or both), however she is a much lighter almost angelic tone compared to the deep sepia shades of everything else including the man which makes her appear to glow and she becomes the centrepiece of the painting, I really like how the tone was used to give this effect especially the darker tone of his arm's shadow, I will probably try and use tone for shadows in my next tonal drawing.

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