Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto drawing

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7 responses to “Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto drawing”

1. 

   Sherrill

   October 17, 2013

   I totally agree with you on this, Charley! Masterful work!
2. 

   David J Teter

   October 17, 2013

   Yeah, you said it all. There is something about that combination of warm ink, cool wash that is so lively.
3. 

   Lynn Patten

   October 17, 2013

   On the Morgan site in this case, but others as well, I can zoom etc. and enjoy large sections as you do but I can not save these images at all like a regular jpg. That is, like the 3 selections here.

   I’m hoping there is something simple I don’t know about that you could suggest so I may save a few crops to study myself.

   Thank you.
   1. 

      cparker

      October 17, 2013

      In some cases, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rijksmusem, there is provision for downloading a high-resolution copy of the image.

      On the Morgan Library site, there is only the large zoom. For my own use, I took three full-screen screen shots and cobbled them together in Photoshop. I then cropped sections from my composited whole image to make the vertical crops shown here.

      If you search the collections at the Met: http://metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections you can find many beautiful drawings (as well as paintings), including some by Canaletto, that you can download in high resolution for future study.

      Also, if you find an image you like on the Google Art Project: http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-project you can often (though not always) find a whole downloadable high-res version of the image by searching on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (look for images that have a 1mb or larger file size).
4. 

   Lynn Patten

   October 17, 2013

   Thank you Charley.

   Now … ( I want to whisper )… how do I take a screen shot ?
   1. 

      cparker

      October 17, 2013

      Windows: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/take-screen-capture-print-screen#take-screen-capture-print-screen=windows-8

      Mac: http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#capturescreen
5. 

   Joshua

   November 9, 2013

   The first thing I noticed when I saw this was a kind of reverse perspective, with the very loose lines in the nearest foreground giving way to very detailed drawing in the architecture.

   I like your taste, it’s actually hard to go through these because I want to stop and spend so much time on each one. 🙂