CollectionCharcoals, Drawings

The creation of a pencil or charcoal drawing is a love story between the artist, the pencil and what he is looking at. It is the combination of these three elements that come together to produce a creation. Charles Menge used this technique to draw villages and natural landscapes from his native Valais. When you look at these drawings, you cannot help but be touched by the simplicity of the beauty of this art that results from the three elements mentioned above, the artist, the black pencil, the thing being observed. Then it’s all about gradations, lights, tones, intensity.
Everyone should pick up a pencil and let themselves be carried away to draw whatever comes to mind. Whether it is to draw something that they observe or an inner representation such as a feeling or emotion. Everyone has the ability to let their hand express what they feel, regardless of the result and the way in which it is represented. The main idea is to let your feelings be expressed through the act of drawing, the intensity of the line, its shape, etc. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Charles Menge was amazed by these villages and the nature that surrounded him. That’s why they can only stand out as beautiful when he drew them.