#red chalk

[bhloomest]

[classic-male-nudes]

Study of a nude Man

by Annibale Carracci (1610, baroque, red chalk on brownish paper)

[kirran906]

Kestrel

[occultclassicalart]

BW Edit after Pellegrino Tibaldi (previously thought to be Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)) (Six Studies of Animal Heads and of a Cartouche) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. 62.247)

[classic-female-nude-paintings]

London, the 1920s. A man who carved letters into stone for a living - headstones, war memorials, inscriptions for churches - picks up a pencil and draws a woman's body with the same devotion he brought to an alphabet. Eric Gill was a contradiction that no art movement could fully contain. Trained as an architect's apprentice, radicalized by the Arts and Crafts movement, obsessed with the idea that art and craft were the same sacred act. By the time he drew "The Bath," he'd become one of Britain's foremost sculptors and typographers - the man who designed Gill Sans, who carved "Prospero and Ariel" on the BBC's headquarters. But his private drawings reveal someone working through the body with an almost liturgical intensity. No academic finish. No idealized Venus reclining on silk for a Paris Salon jury. Just graphite on cream paper, a figure leaning or half-seated, her left side carrying soft shading while the right thins into contour and bare page. A few strokes of red chalk along the edge where her hand meets a surface - deliberate, startling against all that grey. The face is turned away, left undetailed. The legs dissolve below the thigh. Gill believed leaving a work visibly unfinished was more honest than polishing it into illusion. That red chalk line at the lower left sits unexplained - a compositional anchor, a color note for a future version? The kind of studio trace that makes drawings feel more alive than finished paintings. Gill remains a deeply controversial figure, and rightly so. But the drawing stands on its own terms: the hand, the craft, the process laid bare. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

[a-little-bit-pre-raphaelite]

Red Chalk Drawings

Study for a Young Woman, 1890, Simeon Solomon

Head study of a Girl, 1903, Arthur Hughes

Louisa, wife of Murray Marks, 1868, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Portrait of a Woman, Alice Mary Chambers (b.1854/5)

[tomoleary]

John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) study for The Lady Clare (1900) Source

The Lady Clare

[littleredspider]

Part of me feels silly and weird for having so many self portraits, but the smarter half of me knows to feel worse about not being rizzy enough to have other in-person models. Gave a red chalk a try for the first time today and on one of my larger drawing pads. I liked the softness of the wiped chalk look and I do miss drawing on a larger scale so maybe I'll try it again soon.