The process of oil painting: “Erika” #1 – written by Mike Lamble
A wonderful weekend‘DID THE OLD MASTERS CHEAT?’
Some of you may recall the last few years I have often mentioned from time to time my desire to do a workshop say on a Saturday morning showing how I believed the ‘Old Masters’ used optics to create their pantings and illustrated using Caravaggio as an example,which surprised many of you.
For two years on and off I have been messing about in the studio on a Saturdays with mirrors, lenses, blacking out the windows and turning the studio into a rather large Camera Obscura the later with limited success this Saturday was no exception.
but I was short of one piece of equipment until this weekend its called a ‘ Camera Lucida’ there are modern versions around I can get from overseas I wanted an old one the same design as was advertised in the 19th century, this has taken over two years to find, it will arrive by post this week, now at last after years of research I can draw all the threads together including hundreds of paintings, texts and diagrams and offer all my students a workshop which I hope will shock surprise and delight.
A few weeks ago I posted some pictures of Erika where I had started to paint her using the same process as the ‘Old Masters’ from the Renaissance I’ve had a ball painting her for the last two days What a weekend!
Looking forward to seeing you all this week
Mike.