timohuovinen

AFTER IMAGE On Wednesday morning I began experimenting with a completely new way of doing figure and portrait warm-ups.  Instead of observing and constructing, I focused on the after-image and copied what I saw. This was the first disciplined experiment using after-images.  I've experienced them in the past but never used them in a controlled way until now. It was VERY freaky, similar to drawing with a camera obscura.  That's a contraption that uses a mirror in a box to project an illusory image on glass so that it looks as if it's on paper, allowing one to trace it (example  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura  ). Most of us are c