Different ways artists used both wet and dry materials on paper – but I was looking more at the use of dry materials e.g. pastels
Working with the textures of the paper
Different ways of creating tone, showing light and shadow
I particularly love the Degas ‘Woman Combing Her Hair’ for the way he’s really captured the movement. The places where he’s redrawn the lines, e.g. her arm and knee – even if that was just him correcting himself, it really feels like you can see her moving. It looks like frames of an animation layered on top of each other
Albert Lebourg, ‘The Artist’s Wife and Mother-in-law Reading a Letter by Candlelight’, c.1878-79Edgar Degas, ‘Ludovic Halevy Finds Madame Cardinal in the Dressing Room, 1876-77Edouard Manet, ‘The Rue Mosnier in the Rain, 1878Jean-Louis Forain, ‘Walk in the Snow’ (detail), c. 1885-88Edgar Degas, ‘A Seated Jockey, Facing Right’, c. 1880-82Guiseppe de Nittis, ‘In the Cab’, 1880-83Edgar Degas, ‘Dancer Seen from Behind’, c. 1873Jean-Louis Forain, ‘Dance Card’ (detail), c.1888Paul Cezanne, ‘Academic Study of a Male Nude with His Right hand Clenched Across His Chest’ (detail), c. 1867-70Georges Seurat, ‘The Gleaner’, c.1882Paul Signac, ‘Woman Sewing (Study for ‘The Milliners’), 1885George Seurat, ‘Seated Youth, Study for ‘Bathers at Asnieres’ 1883Vincent Van Gogh, ‘Peasant Woman Carrying Wheat in Her Apron’ (detail), July-August 1885Vincent Van Gogh, ‘Thisles by the Roadside’, August 1888Armand Guillaumin, ‘Interior’ (detail), 1889Vincent Van Gogh, ‘Thatched Roofs’ (detail), 1884Henri-Edmond Cross, ‘Le Lavandou’ c. 1898Edgar Degas, ‘Woman Combing Her Hair’, c. 1887-90Odilon Redon, ‘Ophelia Among the Flowers’ (detail), c. 1905-08Odilon Redon, ‘Christ Crowned with Thorns’ (detail), 1895
