The NeoLucida, a simple optical drawing tool, is set to disrupt the way artists work. It’s a widely held belief that the Old Masters were exactly that: masters, such as da Vinci and Vermeer, who ...

Back at the end of May I wrote about a great Kickstarter project which updated the Camera Lucida. The Neo Lucida is a prism on a bendy stick that you can use to superimpose the scene in front of you ...

As long ago as 1807 – and possibly up to 200 years earlier – many artists used an optical device known as a camera lucida to help them in sketching subjects. A controversial theory even suggests that ...

As the debate rages on about the value of AI-generated art, [Chris Borge] printed his own version of another technology that’s been the subject of debate about what constitutes real art. Meet the ...

With regard to my previous blogs – Mega-cool Camera Lucida app for the iPad and Stand back! I’m poised to use my Camera Lucida iPad app! – I just created my first drawing using my iPad Camera Lucida.

Artist David Hockney once stirred up controversy by asserting that many of the great Dutch masters—folks like Vermeer and Ingres—had relied on optical drawing aids to create their masterpieces. Now ...

They say there is nothing new under the sun, and nowhere is that more true than Kickstarter, where anything old and cool is being made new again. We've seen this before with everything from da Vinci ...