Erasure From Charcoal Ground w/Sienna Conte

Below are the two examples that we looked at in class of erasure from a charcoal ground with the addition of sienna conte. Here you can take a closer look at them:

You can also click HERE for a gallery of charcoal & conte drawings done by past students of a friend of mine. Her students are working in a different method that you--in most cases they are using an additive rather than subtractive method--but you can still see how the addition of sienna into an otherwise cool-tone picture creates emphasis, and--in the cases where the student used too much sienna conte--how it can become overpowering and deaden the effect.