Back in 1949, LIFE magazine’s Gijon Mili paid Pablo Picasso a visit at his home in the South of France. Mili, who was a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, showed Picasso some of his photos of ...

From these earliest drawings, another masterful artist, Michelangelo infused his drawings with light by using an actual handheld lamp to change the appearance of the light surrounding his famous ...

Web site Light Doodles teaches you how to draw in a photograph using light. What the heck's a light doodle? See an example in the included image, and hit the site for a video of how that was drawn.

Artist James Minden, with one of his "light drawings" on display at the Washington County Museum through April 6. Minden describes his art as handmade holograms. (Taylor Smith, Special to the Argus) ...

Lighting plays a far bigger role in drawing quality than most artists realise, often shaping results before the first line is ...

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Photographer Eric Staller was enchanted by New York City's, plazas, bridges, parks and monuments, but struggled to find a way to celebrate the city's architecture in the 1970s. Armed with only a 35mm ...

A time long, long before computers began to be used, all the art work for advertisements was done by hand, unless, of course, photographs were being used. Calcutta had produced many fine artists who ...

Christopher Wilmarth, “Half Open Drawing” (1971), etched glass and steel cable, 24 x 17 1⁄2 x 1 inches (Dallas Price and Bob Van Breda, all images courtesy Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York) ...

The term mezzotint comes from Italian and literally means “half-tone.” It is the name of a printmaking technique that uses tones rather than lines to depict forms and define spaces. The mezzotint ...