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 ...

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 ...

I have three very good reasons to write this post. One is that the camera lucida is just a kick-ass gadget, the kind of thing that all you creative iOwning folks out there will presumably love. Second ...