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Laurie Lipton

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Browsing through the internet, I found the Laurie Lipton’s web site. A great graphite artist, one of those artists you fall in love with at first sight of her work.. I was really shocked by the high quality of the drawings, by the techniques, details and imagination. You might also be shocked by the theme of the most drawings, but I found them genial approaches. A perfect Angelina Jolie portrait? No way. A point of view, a conception or a relief of an imaginary world. This is what Laurie’s work is.

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The power of grey

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The main media that I work with is pencil on paper. Comparing it with painting or color pencils, the graphite is limited in colours. In fact you have only one colour: black (or more exactly a grey gamma). Beside this limitation, graphite is still fascinating. Why? Because of its simplicity, power in details… Let’s see from different points of view what the power of grey is.

First of all, according to the color theory, grey (British) or gray (American) describes the tints and shades ranging from black to white. Black and white are the result of the color mixture. There are two types of mixtures: the additive mixture (or light mixture) and the subtractive mixture (or pigment mixture) depending by the medium (light or pigment). The result of the additive mixture of the primary colors, red, green and blue is white, and the result of the mixture of cyan, magenta and yellow is black. (see the images below) www.wikipedia.org
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