Artist David Hockney once stirred up controversy by asserting that many of the great Dutch masters—folks like Vermeer and Ingres—had relied on optical drawing aids to create their masterpieces. Now ...

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 ...

Do you recall my recent blog about the mega-cool Camera Lucida app I discovered for the iPad? The idea is that you first use your iPad to take a picture (or to display an image that you acquired from ...