Tuesday 9 February 2010

Art Mini-Tutorial: ‘Zoom!’

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The Punishment of Haman (detail) - Michelangelo

How does an artist create a three-dimensional figure on a two-dimensional canvas?  And a related question: how does an artist create movement in what is essentially a static medium?

    _quote The key [says artist Michael Newberry] is to re-create the physiological visual sense of movement by atmospheric spatial depth. In other words, give the viewer a sense of zooming through space.”

Check out his mini-tutorial on how artists use the technique of  ‘zoom’ to bring their two-dimensional works alive in the third dimension.

 

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Sketch: ‘Olivia’ – Michael Newberry

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