For this second assignment, I have chosen to talk about dry media and wet media art works. “The dry media, which include metalpoint, chalk, charcoal, graphite, and pastel, consist of coloring agents, or pigments, that are sometimes ground or mixed with substances that hold the pigment together, called binders.”(p.165) I selected the composition “Study of a Woman's Head or the Angel of the Vergine delle Rocce, 1473” by Leonardo da Vinci. This is merely just a sketch of a woman's head from the finished art work of “Virgin of the Rocks”. Metalpoint is “One of the most common techniques used in drawing in the late-fifteenth- and early-sixteenth- century Italy. A stylus that is made of gold, silver, or some other metal is applied to a sheet of paper
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Since liquid medias are so fluid, they can also be applied with a brush. Most of the works, during the Renaissance, were done with iron-fall ink, which was made from a gall, a swelling on an oak tree caused by diseases. The ink at first application was black, sometimes the ink was brown, but as time goes by and the art ages, the ink slowly turns into a brownish color, or the lines will fade.”(p.173) Back in this era, it was very common for artists to use a quill pen to dip into their ink when writing or drawing. “The quill pen was often made from geese or swan feathers, which allowed for a far greater variation of line and texture in drawings than is that of a metalpoint stylus.” For this media I choose Elisabetta Sirani, The Holy Family with a Kneeling Monastic Saint, ca. 1660., private collection.(p.173) Technically, this art work would be considered a mixed media since it is composed of brown ink- wet media- and black chalk- dry media- on paper. “When using a quill pen, the line can be thickened or thinned, just depending on the artist's manipulation when using the pen, the flexibility of the pen, and the absorbency of the paper. The more absorbent, the more freely the ink will flow through the fibers. The more flexible the pen is, the lines are more
Since liquid medias are so fluid, they can also be applied with a brush. Most of the works, during the Renaissance, were done with iron-fall ink, which was made from a gall, a swelling on an oak tree caused by diseases. The ink at first application was black, sometimes the ink was brown, but as time goes by and the art ages, the ink slowly turns into a brownish color, or the lines will fade.”(p.173) Back in this era, it was very common for artists to use a quill pen to dip into their ink when writing or drawing. “The quill pen was often made from geese or swan feathers, which allowed for a far greater variation of line and texture in drawings than is that of a metalpoint stylus.” For this media I choose Elisabetta Sirani, The Holy Family with a Kneeling Monastic Saint, ca. 1660., private collection.(p.173) Technically, this art work would be considered a mixed media since it is composed of brown ink- wet media- and black chalk- dry media- on paper. “When using a quill pen, the line can be thickened or thinned, just depending on the artist's manipulation when using the pen, the flexibility of the pen, and the absorbency of the paper. The more absorbent, the more freely the ink will flow through the fibers. The more flexible the pen is, the lines are more