Art in the Making: Charcoal

with Gary Chapman

In this eight week class participants explored charcoal as the perfect drawing medium for expressive mark making!  Participants developed a personal approach to loose, aggressive mark making with a combination of additive and subtractive techniques using charcoal and erasers for mark making and developing grounds. While charcoal was the primary medium, eventually students combined other media such as conte crayon, spray paint, ink and gesso. This class also explored various alternatives to paper especially for ink and graphite as well as focused upon mark making as it relates to abstraction.

Student Exhibition