Article · Davis Publications
Not Black and White: Franz Kline
By Karl Cole
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2014
About this lesson
Explains how Kline found his abstractions by projecting details of small sketches at large scale, then gives a studio exercise: draw a portrait, still life or landscape, crop a close-up area and repaint it in gouache or tempera until it becomes an abstract composition.
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