Blog post #4

Jane Avril
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899

I find it strange that the artist did not go into detail with Avril's hair as much as he did with the other items he drew. The ruffles of her dress, hat, and feathers all seem to be at least a little detailed. Even the snake and her face have some wrinkles in them. I practiced detailing, shading, and proportion today. While there is no shading and the proportions are normal in this drawing, the artist put detail into it. After drawing, I realized just how hard it must have been for the artist to get everything exactly the way he wanted it to be. The artist also used color, which I did not use today. His main colors are black, white, red, yellow, and blue. He used primary colors along with monochromatic, which I think is a nice touch. The blue was only used in one place, on the snake, and I find that interesting. With the other colors, he used red on many of the places: dress cuffs, dress bottom, ribbon around her neck, her hat, her lips, and her feathers. For yellow, he used it as part of the snake and her hair. The white is her skin and the negative space behind her, which is a majority of the drawing. And the black is used for her long dress, which also covers a majority of the drawing. But the blue stands out because the only place it is on is part of the snake.