Scenic design

So, maybe I'm going to put my whole body behind it. And just go like that. Like, as if I'm a bull dozer or a snow plow. Up in, up in New England, it's a snow plow. What is a...

I don't know if you can see but the mineral spirit does leave kind of like an edge like oil, an oil edge. And so you're going to have that here it's going to turn the paper a...

There is something also referred to as a "cross-contour line", and what that actually means is that you are drawing around the form. Rather than drawing the outline of the form,...

We generally start looking at value in terms of all the different gradations of value you can create because everything in our real world has a whole range of values from white to black. And...

So even with something this simple, there are so many ways of creating the subtle differences that you want to have happen. Even with this big hunk of charcoal I can go on the edge and I can do very...

Now on the other, I did go ahead and put charcoal on the other end just to show you that you know, you can certainly do this the same with charcoal or with any implement. I wouldn't do pencil...

This is another technique where you're going to use a white mark on a dark ground. Black comes to mind but as long as it's not a white ground you're fine. You want again...

We've all familiar with graphite in the shape of our number two pencil and then if you're an artist you have a wide range of weights of pencils but artist also now have graphite...

We're just going to take a minute to check over the materials you might need to sort of do some rough studies of what you might do with your composition. I'm using white paper, and...

I'm just going to show you some examples of field, so that you again, get the idea of what this is going to entail. A field is the edges that denotes the boundary of where you're...