Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait

This piece is a self-portrait made by painter, sculpture, architect, scientific and investigator, Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo is a legendary artist and there has been no other artist, no other name created more discussions and debates. This piece was created in 1512 while he was sixty years old. seven years later Leonardo da Vinchi died at the age of sixty-seven The portrait was made from red chalk on paper.

Vincent van Gogh self-portrait

Vincent van Gogh has a legendary story. In December 1889 van Gogh threatened Paul Gauguin with a razor. Then he cut off the lower part of his own left ear which he then he wrapped it in a newspaper and gave it to the one he loved which was a prostitute named Rachel in the local brothel, asking her to "keep this object carefully".













The reason that van Gogh interests most people is that he is crazy from the lead poisoning.

playful portraits in charcoal

Doing a portrait in charcoal there is something called photocopy mode which is narrowing you eyes and picturing the picture as if it were black and white.Using this technique allows the artist to see the contrast between light and dark, black and white. While working on a charcoal portrait the artist also needs to be making notes, the way the artist makes notes is visualizing in his or her head the shades and contrasts to be able to differentiated the shades of dark to light and the hardness to press down the charcoal. Thirdly there is pushing as a technique that you must use for a charcoal painting that is pushing. Pushing is the amount of pressure that you put on the charcoal against the portrait to allow certain spots to be either a light gray or dark black. It's used when you modell and moddelling is creating shades with your eraser.