Drawing and Painting the Landscape – Erased Drawing

Glimpses of Light
Erased Drawing - Drawing and Painting the Landscape
Charcoal on Paper
60.5cm x 45cm (23.5" x 17.55")

Lesson 17 of Drawing and Painting the Landscape by Philip Tyler deals with Erased Drawing and continues the theme of tonal drawing.

Philip’s instructions are to use sand paper to create charcoal dust and kitchen paper to cover the paper with a mid-grey tone, then to use an eraser to create highlights, and to add more charcoal to the darks. I used a paint brush as well as kitchen paper to move the charcoal dust around - the whole exercise felt more like painting than drawing.

Charcoal is unlikely to become my medium of choice, but I enjoyed this exercise and gained a better appreciation of tone.

This scene has appeared before, but you probably wouldn't recognise it (see A Break in the Clouds).