I think Betty Edwards "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" has some
copying past master drawings (upside down) exercises, you might find
useful
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Sent: 16 June 2008 10:55
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Subject: Re: Painting/Drawing like other artists
Thanks for that, I will definitely try and get to the Nation Gallery on
Friday.
On 16/6/08 10:46, "malcolm banthorpe" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> One thing that drawing a painting does is to force you to look much
more
> closely and intensly at the painting than would perhaps occur
normally. From
> this may follow some insight into how the artist worked and the
intentions
> behind the painting. Leon Kossof, Frank Auerbach and other artists
have
> spent considerable time drawing from paintings at the National
Gallery.
>
> The idea itself is exploited by the National Gallery's free Talk and
Draw
> sessions at 1pm every Friday which seem to be quite popular. The
sessions
> last one hour and consist of two parts. First there is a talk of 10
minutes
> or so about a particular painting by an art historian. The rest of the
time
> devoted to drawing it or an some aspect of it, led by a practising
artist.
> Materials and drawing boards are provided and details of which
painting is
> featured each week can be found in the What's On section of the
National
> Gallery Website.
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