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DRA WING

Silver lines
oxidize to a Vanishing
light brown point located
color on head of
man riding
rearing horse

Figures drawn
in ink on top
of lines
Lines of
squared
pavement slabs
Line drawn recede toward
in silverpoint a single
using a rule vanishing
point

Complex perspective EXAMPLE OF A SILVERPOINT DRAWING Paper prepared
drawing done as a The Adoration of the Magi, Leonardo da Vinci, 1481 with size (glue)
preparatory study Pen and ink over silverpoint on paper and pigment
for a painting 6½ × 11½ in (16.5 × 29.2 cm)

One of a series
of drawings
recording Handmade, tinted
London during paper
1944 –1945

Charcoal lines
softened by
rubbing and
smudging
Broad charcoal
mark

Charcoal Lines rapidly
gives strong, drawn on site
expressive lines

EXAMPLE OF A CHARCOAL DRAWING
St. Paul’s and the River, David Bomberg, 1945
Charcoal on paper
20 × 25⅛ in (50.8 × 65.8 cm)

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