At its most basic level, it’s a prism on a stick. Aim it at an object, put your eye just above the prism and on the paper below appears a ghost image beside a busy pencil. “Within 72 hours, we had ...

As long ago as 1807 – and possibly up to 200 years earlier – many artists used an optical device known as a camera lucida to help them in sketching subjects. A controversial theory even suggests that ...

Anyone who enjoys sketching and would like to be able to capture and outline of the subject they are painting or drawing a little quicker may be interested in a new piece of equipment created by the ...

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 ...

Ciudad de México, 19 de mayo (SinEmbargo).- En una época en la que el papel de la tecnología en el arte se ve constantemente cuestionado, resalta el hecho de la aparición de un aparato que ...

*Back from the dead via Pablo Garcia and no less a man than Golan Levin. "We have designed the NeoLucida: the first portable camera lucida to be manufactured in nearly a century — and the lowest-cost ...

It would be cool to have the ability to eyeball something sitting in front of you then draw it with some semblance of accuracy, but I’ll be damned if that kind of hand-eye coordination isn’t tough to ...

A couple of days ago (Friday 10 May 2013) I became aware of a rather interesting project on KickStarter.com. Two guys – Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin – have designed something called the NeoLucida, ...

They say there is nothing new under the sun, and nowhere is that more true than Kickstarter, where anything old and cool is being made new again. We've seen this before with everything from da Vinci ...