tailieunhanh - Paint by Grids

A Great Sketch Results in a Great Painting How to use the Grid Method to Achieve Accurate Shape and Perspective in Art Failure to achieve accurate shape and perspective in a finished work of art is why many of us give-up and declare ourselves "non-artists." There's nothing worse for a student's artistic selfconfidence than having a painting of a horse turn-out looking more like a dog. Yet there is a simple method of ensuring that the finished work will have proper shape and perspective. Artists dating back to the ancient Egyptians knew of a technique to break down a. | Paint by Grids Figure 1 An 8 X 10 photo with an 8 X 10 grid pattern V F A Great Sketch Results in a Great Painting How to use the Grid Method to Achieve Accurate Shape and Perspective in Art Figure 1 An 8 X 10 photo with an 8 X 10 grid pattern Failure to achieve accurate shape and perspective in a finished work of art is why many of us give-up and declare ourselves non-artists. There s nothing worse for a student s artistic selfconfidence than having a painting of a horse turn-out looking more like a dog. Yet there is a simple method of ensuring that the finished work will have proper shape and perspective. Artists dating back to the ancient Egyptians knew of a technique to break down a painting into smaller grids to effectively divide the image they were painting into a number of smaller images each of which has less detail than the whole. The grid method was even used by Leonardo Da Vinci in both his works and in teaching. Today the grid method is alive and well in many art schools but the math that s required deters many would-be artists. Basically the grid method is nothing more than overlaying a grid onto an original image that you wish to paint and then placing a matching grid pattern on your canvas. For example if your original image is an 8 x 10 ------- i 2 Inches 4- Figure 2 A 16 X 20 canvas with an 8 X 10 grid pattern photograph you could draw a one-inch grid onto the photograph to create a grid pattern with eighty squares eight squares by ten squares . The original photograph or image is now divided nicely into eighty bite-sized pieces each of which are much easier to sketch onto the canvas than the entire original Fig. 1 . Gridding results in better artwork because each of the smaller squares gets sketched one at a time until the entire sketch is finished. Once the sketch is done the student can then begin to paint mixing paints as usual. But if the sketch isn t done well the finished painting will be disappointing. Gridding allows the underlying sketch