Degas’ Dancers: In Oils & Pastels
€20.00
E-BOOK
31 Pages
Medium: Oil Paint and Pastel
This 31-page e-book provides a step-by-step guide to copying two of Degas’ paintings of ballet dancers – one in oil paint and the other in pastels.
- Dancers in Blue (1890, Oil on canvas)
- Blue Dancers (1897, Pastel on paper)
Edgar Degas (1834-1917), one of the most prominent members of the French Impressionists, is primarily known for his paintings of ballerinas, which reflect his love for rhythm, dance, and movement. His preoccupation with the ballet, both on stage and behind the scenes, accounts for over fifteen hundred works across different mediums.
From 1880 onwards, Degas’ palette changed from dull greys to highly chromatic colours, and the muted tones were replaced by warm ones. This transition was paralleled with a change in his style and technique, in which pastels became his dominant medium. His Blue Dancers, however, are one of the few paintings where he chose cool tones to depict these women.
A complete materials and equipment list is provided in the opening section of this e-book. You can download digital images of the paintings in the “Print Paintings” tab below.
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This e-book is a PDF (Portable Document Format) version, and can be saved to your computer or device, or viewed online.
Print Paintings
To do the master copy painting exercises in this e-book, you will need to download and print the images. I would recommend working at A3 size.
However, containing either painting to an A3 size sheet makes it too small due to its aspect ratio. So I have spread the two paintings over three A3 pages – the second page of this PDF has the bottom of the first image and the top of the second. You can then cut the second page on the dashed line and stick the two parts of each painting together. Please download the images below.
These paintings are available in the public domain on Wikipedia, WikiArt or Google Art Project if you wish to resize them some other way.
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– Ann
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