Henry Moore is very famous for his sculptures, but he also made sketches in the London Underground during World War II, when the tube stations were used as bomb shelters. He achieve the spooky effect of the figures rising out of the darkness, by using wax crayons and watercolour paint!
Moore said: “I hit upon this technique by accident, sometime before the war when doing a drawing to amuse a young niece of mine. I used some of the cheap wax crayons (which she had bought from Woolworth’s) in combination with a wash of water-colour, and found, of course, that the water-colour did not ‘take’ on the wax, but only on the background. I found also that if you use a light-coloured or even white wax crayon, then a dark depth of background can easily be produced by painting with dark water-colour over the whole sheet of paper.”
Can you see where Moore has used light-coloured crayon and dark watercolours to create the ghostly figure of
Woman Seated in the Underground? The ink flows over the wax and soaks into the paper around it, leaving the light colours behind. Why not try it yourself?
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Shelter Scene: Bunks and Sleepers, 1941
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| Woman Seated in the Underground, 1941 |
Henry Moore has beautiful pieces of art and his sculptures are just splendid. Yesterday we went on a trip to Tate Britain to learn all about Henry and his sculptures and i can tell you that he is very creative.Most people would agree with me, that just by looking at his sculptures you can tell he is extremely talented. He has even inspired me to try out making one of his water-colored sketches.
ReplyDeleteDuring WW2 Henry Moore created some beautiful pictures of how people used to hide during WW2 . His pictures/sketch shows how they hid and how their shelters was. It looks like the people in the shelter, can't resist the noisy bombs and they, might be sick because of the smoke or they might be wounded.
ReplyDeleteHe has even inspired me to try out making one of his water-colored sketches.
Henry Moore sculptures are beautiful. He inspires me with his imagination because the painting makes me learn more about the times in the olden days. Its very nice seeing his painting and sculptures because its very unique.
ReplyDeleteHenry Moore has amazing pieces of art work because his sculptures are good and I like how he makes them and how he put in a lot of effort in making his painting and his other designs are fantastic because when I saw his art at the Tate Meauseam it was good and his portrait and his landscape art when he created those art he used chalk marbles paint and stone to make what he makes
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