Marvelous 19th C Ink + Watercolor Drawing Illustrating Gridding and Perspective wooden ink pen organizing office supplies on a

organizing office supplies on a desk

reinforcing my notion that this guy really wouldn't harm a flea

showing darker black

I've had a number of these old Czech "ramp walkers" characters in the shop

Plus the wear along the bridge of the nose

Marvelous 19th C Ink + Watercolor Drawing Illustrating Gridding and Perspective wooden ink pen organizing office supplies on aIt was pure delight to find this drawing, wonderfully illustrating how to "enlarge or diminish by means of a square," and then one point perspective, with eye of the scope held by our heroine serving as the vanishing point. I really love that even as they illustrate systematic scaling up or down of a particular image, the two gridded women have entirely different sorts of faces (though they share the same fabulous gown). And then this fabulous all