{"id":8409,"date":"2015-05-29T16:44:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T06:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2016-05-28T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T01:30:00","slug":"did-the-old-masters-cheat-written-by-mike-lamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/did-the-old-masters-cheat-written-by-mike-lamble\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Did the &#8216;Old Masters&#8217; cheat?&#8221; written by Mike Lamble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 100px;\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\" align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/northshoreschoolofart\/18218249902\" title=\"pic1 by Northshore School of Art, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/8\/7769\/18218249902_228b990beb_c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"pic1\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2761\" src=\"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mike_henry_400width-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"mike lamble henry\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Written by Mike Lamble<\/p>\n<p><strong>3-6pm Sunday 24th July 2016 $70<\/strong><br \/>\nAt last I have chosen a date to talk, demonstrate and what I consider visual evidence by looking at paintings by Holbein, Vermeer, Velazquez Leonardo, Van Dyke, Raphael, to name a few including a number of drawings from the 19th century.<br \/>\n\u00a0I will illustrate how I believe the old masters used optics to achieve the results we admire today.<br \/>\nMy journey started many years ago as I stood in front of Caravaggio&#8217;s Supper at Emmaus \u00a01601 in the National Gallery London.<br \/>\nThere was something decidedly odd about the hands I will discuss this in the workshop.\u00a0<br \/>\nThis took me on a journey of exploration that lasted a number of years, at this point I must thank David Hockney for making it easy to put all the pieces together.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\" align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/northshoreschoolofart\/17601356753\" title=\"pic2 by Northshore School of Art, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/8\/7761\/17601356753_32a019d854_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"pic2\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>I sent Most of Sunday experimenting with mirrors and lenses, instruments believed to have been used in the 15th and 16th century&#8217;s, you will also see in the picture a Camera Lucida a 19th Century drawing device next to a 21st Century Camera Lucida ,which is much easier to use than it&#8217;s 19th Century grandfather but still difficult to use as you will find out when invited to try to use it for your self.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\" align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/northshoreschoolofart\/18195465506\" title=\"pic3 by Northshore School of Art, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/8\/7791\/18195465506_febe46dfeb_c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"pic3\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>This shows my attempts tracing the outline of the cast of Aphrodite, after an hour or so experimenting it was quite easy took about 30seconds.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\" align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/northshoreschoolofart\/17601358093\" title=\"pic4 by Northshore School of Art, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/8\/7794\/17601358093_523d351f1b_c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"pic4\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/northshoreschoolofart\/18218250932\" title=\"pic5 by Northshore School of Art, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/8\/7744\/18218250932_ee74960010_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"pic5\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sarita taken from my ipad from Saturday&#8217;s portrait workshop much more difficult several attempts realised it is better to make a few quick notations of proportion then continue using traditional observation skills .<br \/>\nThanks to Andrew lending me his 21st century Camera Lucida I have finally been able to put this workshop together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.art-art.com.au\/SECRETSoftheGREATMASTERS_ws_flyer_A4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download the flyer\/enrollment form<\/a> >><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Mike Lamble 3-6pm Sunday 24th July 2016 $70 At last I have chosen a date to talk, demonstrate and what I consider visual evidence by looking at paintings by Holbein, Vermeer, 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