This series will explore how artists, both throughout art history and those working today, have used the practice of copying and making transcriptions of works by the Old Masters in reference to their own learning and the making of work.
Why make copies?
Selecting a particular statue or painting to observe closely and then draw helps us to connect and engage much more than when we purely stand and look. We can learn so much from the art of the past and the artist’s process, how artists have explored composition, applied paint, used a variety of brushstrokes and mark-making. Drawing from works of art has always been central to my own practice and is something that I have always encouraged students to do.