Seated man in burgundy - Charcoal drawing

Artist:

Matthew Taylor

Medium:

Black and white charcoal pencil on burgundy paper

Date:

6 April 2004

Comments by the artist

You can really lift a drawing off the page when you use strong white on a dark paper. The only difficulty with this technique is it is hard to see the black construction lines when you first plan out the pose.

See a more detailed version of Seated man in burgundy (Male figure drawing) on my new website.

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