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Drawing techniques: drawing frames & perspective machines
The problem of representing the real three-dimensional world in two dimensions is one that has engaged artists for centuries.
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Drawing techniques: the rules of perspective
The representation of space using single-viewpoint perspective is a convention that is very familiar today.
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Drawing techniques: counter-proofing, pouncing and the grid
Artists have employed a wide range of techniques for transferring images from one surface to another.
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Drawing techniques: the Claude Glass
Claude Lorrain (1600-82) was a leading 17th-century landscape painter who worked in Rome and became famous for drawings and paintings displaying a subtle gradation of tones…
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Drawing techniques: camera obscura
Camera Obscura' is Latin for 'dark room'. It describes an enclosed space with a small hole in one side, sometimes fitted with a lens, through which light enters to form an …
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Drawing techniques: camera lucida & Varley graphic telescope
The camera lucida was patented by Dr William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) in 1807. It is a four-sided prism mounted on an adjustable stand.
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Drawing techniques: the age of photography
Using a camera obscura and light-sensitive paper, William Fox Talbot succeeded in making fixed paper negatives in 1834 and positives in 1839.
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Drawing techniques: digital technology
Computer technology has been used by artists since the late 20th century and many artists now use computers as part of their working process
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Patterns of Fashion 1: c1660 - 1860
One of four volumes of Patterns of Fashions written and illustrated by Janet Arnold that together form an indispensable core collection for any costum…
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Wed 05 June 2013 13:00
LUNCHTIME LECTURE: Curators Sarah Wood and Ieuan Hopkins look at how toy manufacturers have responded to changing attitudes towards war, and the impact war can have on children's play.
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