My Favorite Drawings and Paintings
Drawing is a form of visual art that
makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional
medium. Instruments used include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes,
wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, various kinds of erasers,
markers, styluses, and various metals (such as silverpoint). An artist who
practices or works in drawing may be called a draftsman or draughtsman.
A small amount of material is
released onto the two dimensional medium, leaving a visible mark. The most
common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as
cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, may be used. Temporary drawings
may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard or indeed almost anything. The medium
has been a popular and fundamental means of public expression throughout human
history. It is one of the simplest and most efficient means of communicating
visual ideas.The relatively easy availability of basic drawing instruments
makes drawing more universal than most other media.
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color
or other medium[1] to a surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied
to the base with a brush but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and
airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and
the result of the action. However, painting is also used outside of art as a
common trade among craftsmen and builders. Paintings may have for their support
such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay, leaf, copper
or concrete, and may incorporate multiple other materials including sand, clay,
paper, gold leaf as well as objects.
Painting is a mode of creative
expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, composition or abstraction and
other aesthetics may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention
of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in
a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, be loaded with
narrative content, symbolism, emotion or be political in nature.
A portion of the history of
painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by spiritual motifs and
ideas; examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting
mythological figures on pottery to Biblical scenes rendered on the interior
walls and ceiling of The Sistine Chapel, to scenes from the life of Buddha or
other images of eastern religious origin.
