Ever More Technical Terms For Artists!…
Sanguine can be a drawing, crayon or chalk. There are various different shades it can actually be. Flesh, or an absolute blood red, or a reddish colour. This medium can be used for drawing. It has oxide in the pigment and the content of it is generally chalk or clay. This is also the main colour in Conte crayons. Red chalk, as a term, is the name of the shade.
Sandy Paste works pretty well when using pastels, as it spreads well. The texture of it is gritty and is a sandy coloured acrylic paste which makes for an interesting surface.
Scale really is how you put in proportion the sizing of the dimensions of one thing against another. When drawing to scale, the scale would be the ratio of your drawing to the first drawing. So if you did your drawing to half scale, it would be half the size of your original.
Triptych – Three paintings which have a connection. The largest one in the centre with a painting either side of this. Sometimes they are mounted on a type of platform, but they can also be hinged together or simply just be hung side by side. However, in some instances they are done with carvings.
Diptych is a work that is made up by two paintings which can be put together, or spaced apart, or you can also have a Polytych, which is a work made up of four or five panels.
Automatic Drawing can be achieved with a pencil or brush. This is an interesting conception as this type of drawing really is drawing without thought. It is often called Automation and was favoured by surrealists as it afforded them more freedom in their work as non conformists.
Many fantastic paintings were created like this, often leaning towards Abstract Expressionism.
Graphite – Years ago this was used for writing, by using small lumps of it, which were attached to a stick. It is a form of carbon, which is a grey or black. At one time it was called black lead and to this day some pencils are not properly labelled and are still being sold as lead pencils. The pencils themselves are a mixture of graphite and clay.
Conte crayons are dating back from the 18th Century. These crayons can produce various degees of hardness as they have different variances of graphite and clay.
The content is similar to chalk, has a slightly greasy feel to it and does not crumle much. These crayons are used for drawing and can be obtained in black, red and brown. Conte was a portrait painter when he was young and he invented the modern graphite pencils we now use.
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