Wash Lecture Swartzentruber
Albrecht Durer , Nude from behind
Rembrant van Ryn , Study of a Female Nude
Rembrant van Ryn, Cottage Near Entrance to a Wood (1644), Bistre ink, some black and Red chalk
Washed can be applied directly to the drawing surface with brushes, rags, sponges, paper towels, pens and sticks. The brush is one of the artist’s most expressive implements for ink wash. It can be held close to the tip for control, or held far back on the handle for more expressive drawing. Brushes can produce bold, delicate or fine lines, texture and value. They can be loaded with ink and used wet, or partially loaded to achieve a dry brush technique.
Francisco de Goya, Waking from Sleep in the Open , Brush and brown wash
Honore Daumier, Family Scene (c 1865), pen and ink w/ brush and gray wash/ paper
Honore Daumier, Three Connoisseurs (c 1869), pen and black ink w/ wash over charcoal
Honore Daumier, Soup (c 1860-62), pen and wash
Honore Daumier, Clown (1868), Black chalk and water color
Honore Daumier, Clown (1848-50), The Market
Wash drawings are often used as an introduction to painting. Often they serve as preliminary studies for water media paintings. They are good for explore value and/or color compositions.
The methods for achieving special effects in visual art are limitless. Many are realized by manipulating or processing traditionally approved materials through unorthodox methods. Gray washes can be dripped into wet areas and allowed to flow. Tilt your drawing board. White wax crayon used as a resist
Reginald Marsh , White Tower Hamburger (1945), Ink
Reginald Marsh, Eyes Tested (1944), Chinese ink and watercolor
Wash drawings are somewhere between drawing and painting. Wash is simply pigment that has been thinned with a solvent. Usually ink or
Wash Lecture
Swartzentruber watercolor is used. Try also tempera, acrylic, gouache, thinned with water or oil pigments
Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin and Child with St. Anne
(c1500), pen
Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna and Child and other thinned with turpentine. You can make a wash with-charcoal, conte, chalk, pastels, thinned with water, and crayons or oil pastels, dissolved or
Studies, pen and ink
Michelangelo, Various ink studies
Raphael, Study for the Transfiguration
Albrecht Durer, Standing Female Nude , pen
Albrecht Durer , Bather (1493),pen drawing
Albrecht Durer , Nude from behind
Albrecht Durer , Study of Hands , pen thinned with turpentines.
Giambattista Tiepolo , Thetis
Giambattista Tiepolo, Venus, Time, and Love , pen and bistre
Giambattista Tiepolo , Old Couple , pen and bistre
Giambattista tiepolo , Oriental, from Back, pen and
Albrecht Durer , 5 Nudes-Resurrection Study , pen
Rembrant van Ryn , Study of a Female Nude
Rembrant van Rijn, Two Men Shaking Hands , pen and ink on paper
Rembrant van Ryn , Study of a Female Nude
Reclining on a Couch , Pen and Wash
Rembrant van Ryn, Cottage Near Entrance to a
Wood (1644), Bistre ink, some black and
Red chalk
Rembrant van Ryn, Two Butchers at Work , pen and bistre bistre
Giambattista Tiepolo , Group of Farm Buildings , pen and bistre
Giambattista Tiepolo, Soderini Crowned by
Genius , pen and bistre
Giambattista Tiepolo, Two Men in Profile Facing
Left , pen and bistre
Giambattista Tiepolo, Annunciation , pen and bistre
Washed can be applied directly to the drawing surface with brushes, rags, sponges, paper towels,

pens and sticks. The brush is one of the artist’s most expressive implements for ink wash. It can be held close to the tip for control, or held far back on the handle for more expressive drawing.
Brushes can produce bold, delicate or fine lines, texture and value. They can be loaded with ink and used wet, or partially loaded to achieve a dry brush technique.
Francisco de Goya, Waking from Sleep in the
Open , Brush and brown wash
Honore Daumier, Family Scene (c 1865), pen and ink w/ brush and gray wash/ paper
Honore Daumier, Two Men Looking Toward the
Left (c 1840), pen and pencil
Honore Daumier, Three Connoisseurs (c 1869), pen and black ink w/ wash over charcoal
Honore Daumier, Soup (c 1860-62), pen and wash
Honore Daumier, Clown (1868), Black chalk and water color
Honore Daumier, Clown (1848-50), The Market
Wash drawings are often used as an introduction to painting. Often they serve as preliminary studies for water media paintings. They are good for explore value and/or color compositions.
Pablo Picasso, Seated Woman (1906), pen and ink
Pablo Picasso, Woman and Monkey (1954), pen and ink
Henry Moore, Standing Nude , Charcoal, brush and ink
Henry Moore, Composition of Figures, 1922-24
The methods for achieving special effects in visual art are limitless. Many are realized by manipulating or processing traditionally approved materials through unorthodox methods. Gray washes can be dripped into wet areas and allowed to flow. Tilt your drawing board. White wax crayon used as a resist
Reginald Marsh , White Tower Hamburger (1945),
Ink
Reginald Marsh, Eyes Tested (1944), Chinese ink and watercolor