Titchy Titian (End of the first series)

There has been some talk of ball tampering. I would like to confirm that the only balls I tampered with were my own.

Ha ha, that's ok then. Gret success this, Justin. From the thumbnail, what you pick up is the gorgeous blue. Just quickly..did you grid it a bit?

Thanks Marjorie, for the initial drawing I used a homemade camera Lucida, and a reasonable copy of the painting. For the colour and more detailed work I have an iPad on a stand with a National gallery app. That has high definition copies of many of the paintings in the gallery, so I can zoom in on details as I painted them. There are quite a few cheap gallery apps that are really good, and far cheaper than a book. I’m sure some may consider using mechanical aid cheating, but if that’s the case so is using spectacles or modern paints. If you are interested in the camera Lucida you might look up Tim’s Vermeer.

Terrific!

This is great, and interesting to learn how you did it. I can never find the access to the N Gallery app, but then I don't have an iPad, only a tiny Asus pc, and I'm hopeless on it anyway!!! Lovely work anyway,

This is something of an achievement Justin and your accompanying text interesting. Much kudos and I look forward to seeing your tweaks!

I read all about the camera obscura and camera lucida in David Hockney's recent books. Very impressed you made your own.

This is really good work but not sure about posting every stage of the process.