The Renaissance Workshop

Interdisciplinary, Practice-Led Reconstruction of Renaissance Drawing Methods

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@ajebson Van der Weyden is a great idea! The BM had amazing images available for studying. How on earth those drawings were made is beyond me! Do share your results Tony

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Leonardo study in silverpoint

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The Italian Renaissance silverpoint styluses from The Renaissance Workshop

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@ajebson Fantastic work Toby! The original drawing by Raphael is really large and done in chalk. With silverpoint, heads should be drawn a bit smaller because the medium is much finer. I’d recommend a scale of about an orange size so that the marks merge more effectively

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@therenworkshop Your stylus continues its sterling service for me.

Here's an attempt at Raphael's Head of a Muse, flipped for a leftie like me, and even though the original is black chalk (which seems to be impossible to get).

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Hand-forged historical reconstruction

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@ajebson Fantastic Toby!

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Leonardo’s drawing process revealed

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Silverpoint sketchbook study after Pietro Lorenzetti @narodnigalerie

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Thank you Prague. Until next time

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@imahouse1013 Beautiful

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@ajebson Great work Tony! Keep going at it

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Reconstructing 500 year old silverpoint stylus

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Making historical reconstructions gives me the tools I need to decode the mysteries of what drawing meant to Renaissance artists, and how they drew. Hand-forging and making by hand each of their materials for drawing provides me with tactile information unavailable from reading

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@tstartworks That’s excellent Theo

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@tstartworks Fantastic work

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@tstartworks Beautiful carving Theo

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@GettyMuseum Hatching is the most beautiful way to shade a drawing. Leonardo’s hatching was sublime. Birds hatching 🐣 is extremely special too ♥️

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How Leonardo da Vinci drew the Bust of a Warrior with silverpoint. The original drawing at the @britishmuseum demonstrates Leonardo’s supreme diligence and patience as a draughtsman. Here I replicate the drawing with the same materials used by Leonardo

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Drawing in silverpoint after Leonardo