Mitzuk’s Musings

Experiment: Camera Lucida

So a couple guys did a Kickstarter. They created a modern version of the camera lucida: the NeoLucida. I was curious so I chipped in. Backstory David Hockney, in his book “Secret Knowledge,” proposed that many of the old masters used optics as they came available. This ruffled some...

Portrait Practice

I’ve been studying Valentin Serov’s portraits. He was a Russian artist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I love his dancing, searching line mixed in with bold marks and wanted to experiment with that. A few Saturdays ago I had some extra time and got to attend the...