Dear George
David Hockney is the walking encyclodedia on drawing aids and
mechanisms, but I can't think of the TV programme I saw him talking on
the subject.
David
David Haley
MIRIAD
Manchester Metropolitan University
Postgraduate Research Centre
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Andrew
I can remember using an epidiascope about 20 years ago to project
drawings
and photographs onto the wall to trace images for screenprinting. The
machine was a huge great heavy thing, and used to get so hot you
couldn't
touch it. Back then, you could buy one second hand for about a fiver,
but I
suspect they're very difficult to get hold of now.
I'm very interested in the various drawing aids that people have used
over
the years. In the latest edition of Ray Smith's 'Artist's Yearbook'
(Dorling Kindersley, 2003) there is brief but interesting section on
mechanical / optical drawing aids. A device I hadn't heard about before
was
something called the graphic telescope, which apparently was able to
project an external view onto a horizontal piece of paper, at
different
scales. (See also 'Drawing Aids to Perspective' web page
http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/DRAWING_MACHINES.html)
George.
At 08:45 PM 4/30/03 +0000, you wrote:
>In the 70's Exchange and Mart was awash with adverts for such
devices.
>I was concentrating on 'Banda' and 'Roneo' then.
>I would love to get hold of one of those, cheap, projectors now!
>Andrew
>[I have been to www.camaraluceda.org.uk]
>
>
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