Charcoal Landscape Demo by Thomas Pscheid at AC Art Association Meeting

Thomas's charcoal paintings are exquisite. See http://www.leagueofmilwaukeeartists.com/thomas_pscheid.htm .

He uses the smooth side of mis-teintes white paper. He starts with his gray flint color alpha mat and marks where he wants a white border to show within the mat window. He then puts removable tape down and tapes down paper to the removable tape to cover to the edges.

He starts his drawing by loosely drawing in the main shapes. He uses mostly vine charcoal of various hardnesses, a kneaded erasor, paper towel and paper stomps (tortillons) of various sizes for blending. He sometimes uses a mahl stick to rest his hand on. Occasionally will use a dark charcoal pencil or a white charcoal pencil but he prefers to save his whites. He uses sandpaper to sharpen his charcoal. Generally works from background (sky) to foreground.

When done he sprays his charcoal painting with fixative and removes the protective paper and tape.