Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens. - Cennino Cennini
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.
- Cennino Cennini
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nouris… - Cennino Cennini
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nouris…
Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any… - Cennino Cennini
Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any…
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other mod… - Cennino Cennini
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other mod…
Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and persever… - Cennino Cennini
Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and persever…
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of gre… - Cennino Cennini
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of gre…
Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not. - Cennino Cennini
Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them. - Cennino Cennini
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment fr… - Cennino Cennini
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment fr…
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