David Hockney
Born in 1937, is a very well know prolific painter living in England. His massive amount of works can be seen on his web-site http://www.hockneypictures.com spanning from the 1950's until present day.
The first of the three drawings by David Hockney was done in 2000 and it shows a very simplistic example of drawing using different marks and lines. I think that when I draw I seem to see so much detail, which of course there is in a view of anything, instead of just breaking down the view to basically large shapes and different tones. This example shows with simple lines a very effective way to emphasis only the important parts of the scene or at least only the parts that drawer wants to be seen.
''The drawing for the painting - The Gate'' 2000
The finished painting of ''The Gate'' The design and execution of this painting is almost naive but very effective, you easily feel like you are looking down on the gate because of the light coloured pathway being inclosed by the darker colours of the wall on one side and the garden on the otherside. The branches of the trees force you to look at the gate also. I think that this particular style is probably very easy for the viewer to understand and enjoy, I like it but do not see it as a great painting because it probably seem so naive.
The following two drawings were done at an early time by David Hockney using the same technique for both drawings in charcoal. He has great control over the charcoal and is able to get great visual depth by using it to create light and dark areas. I would like to work more in charcoal and need to practice and using this technique would be a good way to start.
''Cut Trees - Timber'' 2008
''Trees Near Water ll'' 2008
I was actually fortunate to see a documentary on the television recently about David Hockney and the work he created for a very large exhibition. His paintings were based on very simple line drawings of trees. I was impressed by the simplicity of being able to duplicate similar drawings of trees over and over to create extremely large canvases which when all joined together filled a very large wall.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Born in Scotland 1868, he was an architect, designer, water colourist and artist.
''..ecconomic hardships'' (wikipedia.org) forced him to close his architectural office in Glasgow and he and his wife were took an extended holiday in Suffolk in 1914 where he ''created many floral watercolours'' (wikipedia.org) such as these beautiful drawings below:
I particularly like the Cactus Flowers that he has drawn using minimal colour to show the shape and form of both the leaves and flowers of the cacti.
Camille Pissarro
Born in 1831 and according to www.arthistory.upenn.ed states the drawings Pissarro completed in is life ''a conservative estimate puts their number at well over three thousand'' many, many more than other artists of that period of time.
''View of Trees'' 1859, Pen and dark ink over pencil on grey-blue paper.
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