An Attempt at a Gold-Point Drawing

[julianadeflorey]

Back a couple of years ago, I wrote about making prepared papers for drawing in silverpoint:  ( http://julianadeflorey.livejournal.com/4647.html) Silverpoint was the technique used by the Old Masters for many of their preliminary drawings.  It's just a silver wire in a holder or mechanical pencil to make a fine gray mark on the prepared paper, which

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Amazon.com is Heroin: medieval workshop drawings

[julianadeflorey]

I'm so bad. I just went to Amazon and ordered "Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy" by Francis Ames-Lewis. I've read it already - it's where I learned about medieval workshop drawings. I got the book several years ago with an interlibrary loan, but thinking about it just now I just had to possess it.