talk about a "hornets nest" topic...
Plus and minus.
As my drawing 101 teacher "J-Lo" (Jennifer Locke)
sed:
What ever it takes to get what's
in your head onto the paper/canvas"
If i need an exact picture of "The Thinker" by
Rodin then i'm using my trusty $49 projector.
Of course i do a lot of collage - which is
the ultimate "cheat".
There's a million ways to go. And you should try
them all. I've done *some* collaborative work as
well and for anything figurative Sandy does the
work - she teaches figure drawing. Me? I'm the
"abstract line specialist".
In the end, as i always say "You own your own lines".
The stroke might be from tracing paper, but YOU are
the one deciding where to put it and what to do with
it." Or as my art theory prof, David Newman sed
Everything done since the Lasaux
caves is derivative. (ie, a copy of style, etc)
He;s also very big on the xerox machine as camera.
Best ones are the old ones that DON'T have the
image correction stuff. Hard to duplicate (there's
that word again  Warhol's ideas when the blamed
thing keeps colour/contrast correcting the image.
Anyway, *always* enjoy the battle of the words,
-- Frank http://art-squeek.angelfire.com
*** ALSO on data projectors. rumour has it that Radio
Shack is getting into the game and the price
will come down to something like $100 for a pop-up
style looking like the Polaroid SX-70 camera. I
noticed (last i priced them) that they *were* down.
Definitely a pricy but nice-to-have thing - esp
for (ahem, ehr..) performnace work.
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