For centuries, drawing -- interpreted as conjuring up a recognizable image through line and tone -- was considered not only essential to an artist's preparation for a painting but also a ...

one dedicated to line, another to tone and the third to colour. This process changed when Riley moved into abstraction, but it illustrates how, as Jay A. Clark, the Art Institute of Chicago’s ...

Currently, the museum maintains a diverse collection of almost 3,700 drawings—nearly 1,250 of them European, from which 69 ...

Learn the fundamentals of representational drawing through observation, line, tone, volume, perspective and composition. This will include drawing the body, still-life and other subjects rendered in a ...

After all, line drawings are very different from the objects that surround us. They often have no color, are highly simplified, and can even have a completely different shape than the real object.