Artist: Peter Hildick
Title: Bathtime
Edition Size: 50
Medium: Prints - Photo - Litho
Image Size: 8" x 17.75"
From the Artist: My drawings are always done in monochrome and contrary to what people might think, it is not simply the art of using black - there are grey areas in between. In terms of technique, the artist using a graphite pencil has only a limited vocabulary; there is a pure essential line, a shade, and a texture produced by repetition of the line. These basic building blocks are manipulated by variations in pressure as the pencil is drawn along, and by changes of speed and direction of the pencil’s movement. The softest leads can be blended or smudged into areas of gentle tone and on most good drawing surfaces an eraser may be used to reverse out parts of the drawing, thus creating subtle highlights or contrasting areas of light and shade. The first step towards drawing is holding the pencil properly. A pencil should lie comfortably in the hand, so that it is free to move at the slightest controlling touch. It should not be an alien object that has to be forced. I achieve texture by moving just my fingers and wrists to achieve fine lines, never more than a quarter inch long. I prefer to have all my pencil strokes in one direction, overlapping them and varying the thickness to build form. Work in graphite pencil should always progress from light to dark, finally being accented in the near black of the graphite at its most intense.



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