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Sight-size drawing and painting

Apollo Belvedere, 350-325BC,Vatican Museums

The Rape of the Sabine Women by Nicolas Poussin, 1637, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Before The Bath (1900) by Bouguereau

Sight-Size is a method of drawing and painting an object exactly as it appears to the artist on a one to one scale. The artist first sets a vantage point where the subject and the drawing surface appear to be the same size. Then, using a variety of measuring tools -- which can include strings, sticks, mirrors, levels, and plumb-bobs -- the artist draws the subject so that, when viewed from the set vantage point, the drawing and the subject have exactly the same dimensions. When properly done, sight-size drawing can result in extremely accurate and realistic drawings. It can also be used to draw the exact dimensions for a subject in preparation for a painting. Contemporary realist painter Adrian Gottlieb notes that "while professional painters pursuing a full-time career will develop an 'eye' that precludes the need for measuring devices and plumb lines (tools necessary during the training period), the observation method itself is not abandoned - instead it becomes second nature. Sight-size can be taught and applied in conjunction with a particular sensitivity to gesture to create life-like imagery; especially when applied to portraiture and figurative works."

Darren R. Rousar, former student of Richard Lack and Charles Cecil as well as the author of Cast Drawing Using the Sight-Size Approach, agrees and defines measuring in broad terms. He says that "a fully trained artist who uses Sight-size might never use a plumb line or even consciously think about literal measuring. He or she will strive toward achieving the same retinal impression in the painting as is seen in nature."

Accuracy based methods often favor the appearance the sculpture from classical antiquity, a Neoclassical painting or modern near photorealism following truth

Comparative Measurement

The comparative measurement method requires proportional accuracy, but allows the artist to vary the size of the image created. This technique broadly encompasses any method of drawing that involves making measurements primarily using the naked eye. In the early training period students may be aided by a pencil, brush or plumb line to make comparisons, but there is no transfer of 1:1 measurements from subject directly to paper. Rather than mimic a single style, artist skilled at the use of multiple illusions often study the technical execution and compositions of a wide variety of old masters This allows each student to pursue their own individual vision. Students of these ateliers exhibit a wide range of personal styles and increasing amounts of creative experimentation.

The modiste

The Atelier of Léon Bonnat (1846-1855), one of the more liberal instructors, stressed simplicity in art above high academic finish, as well as overall effect rather than detail. Bonnat's students exhibited a wide range of styles and included: Gustave Caillebotte, Suzor-Coté, Georges Braque, Thomas Eakins, Raoul Dufy, Marius Vasselon, Fred Barnard, Aloysius O'Kelly, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.[2]

Titian (1516–1518)

Although individual students study a wide range of old masters, many study the painting techniques and compositional skills of the High Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque styles, including Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Rubens, El Greco.

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