Did Vermeer use a camera obscura? What went wrong with Impressionist oil sketches? When did Klimt paint from photographs? Does any of this really detract from the art in a painting?
We don’t know when Apple decided to introduce Big Sur’s SSV, but even now it hasn’t told users it won’t be releasing standalone updates for 11.0.1 or 11.1.
Sketches and studies are the richest evidence for the artistic in craft-dominated processes required to turn those into a painting.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: I’m the […]
A new version using Mach absolute time brings accuracy to a few microseconds, and a Help page. Tests progress well, and continue to make interesting comparisons.
Latest in a succession of techniques, AR can guide someone to draw, just the camera obscura, photography and projectors did. Do these detract from the art in a painting?
It’s a commonplace task: make a bootable external disk for emergency use, containing your diagnostic and repair tools. On a new M1 Mac? Should be simple.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
Apple released macOS Big Sur 11.1 on 14 December. Although yesterday it finally posted standalone installers for the […]
A party of landsfolk riding in horsedriven hay wagon, the artist’s mother sewing in Nabi style, tennis in Rhode Island, and a deserted table by the sea.
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