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Lisandro pena "African Proud Lion"

Paul Fadden "A graphite Drawing"

Paul Lung "Gooloo"

Helen McNicholas "Rhino"

Gary Tymon "Chimpanzee Chip"

Final Project

 

                                                              The Beauty Of Pencil

 

   The place where I want this show to take place is going to be the cafeteria on the E building. The reason why I picked this place is because it is a place where many students and teachers are most of the time. In other words it is the perfect place for this show and students and teachers can be the perfect audience.

    My theme is art with pencil. I decided to choose this theme because I want to show the audience, how beautiful a drawing can be by only using pencil and not feel the necessity of using other mediums. I came up with this idea because I had seen different drawings from different artist on YouTube and other websites. What I notice from the drawings of all the artists that I saw was that, most of their drawings where unbelievable and what was more interesting about them was that all of them were on pencil.

   As a curator, I decided to pick pieces from artists such as “African Proud Lion” by Lisandro Pena, “A graphite drawing” by Paul Cadden, “Gooloo” by Paul Lung, “Rhino” by Helen McNicholas, and “Chimpanzee Chimp” by Gary Tymon. From all these pieces, the reason I wanted to pick them was because of the realism every artist put on every of their drawings by just using pencil. This is something that these five pieces from this artist have in common besides being 2D images. On the drawing “African Proud Lion” by Lisandro Pena, we can see the level of realism that he gave to this lion. Every detail makes this drawing look alive and almost like a photography. The drawing “A graphite drawing” by Paul Cadden, we can see how realistic this portrait is. He made use of every technique on this drawing that in not even noticeable, the smoothness on this drawing and the detail that it has makes it very realistic. “Gooloo” by Paul Lung, shows a cat laying on something. This drawing shows the kind of skills this artist has by just using pencil. The drawing, with the well use of the pencil that this artist has makes it look like a photocopy of a picture but the shades that it has on the background can tell that it’s a drawing. Lastly, we got “Rhino” by Helen McNicholas, this artist drew this beautiful beast only using pencil. Every detail on this drawing looks very well done. From all this drawings, we can see that this artist made well use of element of art such as line, shapes, texture and others. Also by seeing every drawing we can see that pencil is a powerful tool when it comes to create amazing art. Also another thing they have in common is that, they are inspired by living things such as animals and persons. In my own experience, most of this artist had inspired me with most of their drawings. I have drawings in pencil but they are not as good as these ones but hope one day I get to their level.