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Still Life
- Date:
- 1927
- Medium:
- Etching
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Hatching is an essential skill for printing and we teach it to our younger students in year 7. One of the artists we have used to help students understand how to create a variety of textures and tones using a high contrast markmaking device (more specifically, a pen), is Giorgio Morandi. We choose him because he works in still life (as we do with our students in this project) but also because his hatching technique is quite simple compared to a more elaborate style such as what is present in Piranesi's etchings. Here are some of the best works I have photographed last year:
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| This is a very skilled girl in year 7 who made a serious effort to observe light and shadow and depict a variety of tones using cross-hatching |
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Carceri Plate VII - The Drawbridge.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Untitled etching (called "The Drawbridge"), plate VII (of 16) from the series The Imaginary Prisons (Le Carceri d'Invenzione), Rome, 1761 edition (reworked from 1745).
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Another y7 example, in this case, with a more disorganised style, but very effective.
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