The first of these drawings was made from looking at a drawing by the wonderful French artist Georges-Pierre Seurat. I studied his technique and than tried to apply it on my own ideas.
Here is some background information about Georges-Pierre Seurats’ drawings:
Because of his painstaking working process, Seurat completed relatively few major paintings. Throughouthis life, however, he was a tireless and consummate draftsman. As a student, he made drawings of classical sculpture, architectural motifs, and the human figure. Many of these are reminiscent of the touch and style of Ingres. But by the early 1880s Seurat began to evolve a more personal style, generally employing Cont’ crayon and an unusually high-grain paper. The range of feeling in these drawings is extraordinary – and occasionally surprising in comparison to the rather cool tenor of his paintings. The master delicately used his materials to suggest figures, spaces, and atmosphere; frequently he allowed the grain of the paper to show through the Cont’ crayon and achieved a sense of quiet intimacy that has few parallels in the history of the medium.
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