ARTH150 Lecture 2: Drawing & Painting
4 Nov 2018
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Typically uses dry media (pencil, pen, chalk, pastel, crayon) rather than wet media (paint) Stone slates or tablets that could be drawn on with chalk and easily erased. Could also be used painted/prepared wooden boards. Thin, flexible writing surface made from scraped and dried animal skins. Soaking and scraping the animal hides to remove fur and fat. Stretching the hides, then scraping and polishing until they are smooth and even. Cutting flattened parchment into folios or pages, used for writing and. First records of paper-making in china around 200 ce; travels to the islamic world in the 8th century.
