{"id":1720,"date":"2010-08-05T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2010-08-05T08:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T16:10:15","slug":"artograph-easel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"Artograph Easel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made two “large” purchases this summer in support of my artistic endeavors.\u00a0 This week I made two more – but those are really for business (Windows 7 and Adobe CS5).\u00a0 This summer I purchased a wooden easel and an Artograph projector.\u00a0 Artograph is the open secret that many artists use (but apparently don’t talk about) to transfer their drawings onto canvas.\u00a0 Over the past year and a half I’ve tried several methods to transfer.\u00a0 Freehand didn’t work so well, so I tried gridding.\u00a0 That still didn’t work – as canvases are never really exactly the sizes they say they are.\u00a0 Next I tried using transfer paper, but that proved to be tedious, dirty and often inaccurate as there is no way to tell if you’ve pressed hard enough until you lift up the paper…and by lifting it up you’ve lost your bearings.\u00a0 I started researching again on a better way.\u00a0 At first I was going to buy an old digital projector from craigslist – but then I stumbled onto this<\/a>.\u00a0 A trip to Aaron Brothers the next day on my lunch break and I was taking one of these home.\u00a0 The only tough thing about using the projector is getting the projector at the right level.\u00a0 You’ll see below how I stacked it on pieces of wood to get it centered on the canvas.\u00a0 Otherwise it works great.\u00a0 All I have to do is make a 5″x5″ print of my drawing and then I can blow it up to any size canvas.\u00a0 I can go back and project the drawing later (as I did with this painting\u00a0at a much later stage) to make sure everything is in the right spot.\u00a0 Something which isn’t really advisable with transfer paper (you don’t want graphite on your canvas once you’re already working in acrylic).<\/p>\n

The image below is my test of this process.\u00a0 I decided to work on a painting not from “life” – but from one of my crazy sketches (which I’ll post more of on the site if I can get windows 7’s “xp mode” to work with my old scanner).<\/p>\n

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The other piece of the puzzle was my “real” easel.\u00a0 For a year and a half I painted all my large pieces by setting them on the floor and leaning them against my desk.\u00a0 I would often paint standing on my knees.\u00a0 This was not the most ergonomic solution.\u00a0\u00a0 The new easel fixes all that.\u00a0\u00a0 I also bought a professional painters mask at Lowes to deal with the lack of adequate ventilation on my room.\u00a0 However, apparently the “paint smell” that I’d been smelling is really the smell of the untreated wood used on the easel (it stinks!).\u00a0 I thought it would go away eventually, but it has been over a month and I can still smell that easel.\u00a0 Anybody have any suggestions?\u00a0 Can I neutralize that smell with something?\u00a0 Should I coat it with some kind of wood seal?<\/p>\n

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Oh – and this also partially shows the reorganizing of my room that I did in May.\u00a0 Obviously the bed is no longer under the window….\u00a0 I figured that was smarter so the paint fumes don’t waft over my nose at night on their way out the window.\u00a0 However, being farther from the window also means the air is hotter… and I can’t sleep when it is hot.\u00a0 It is hot in the valley.\u00a0 I don’t get much sleep anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made two “large” purchases this summer in support of my artistic endeavors.\u00a0 This week I made two more – but those are really for business (Windows 7 and Adobe CS5).\u00a0 This summer I purchased a wooden easel and an Artograph projector.\u00a0 Artograph is the open secret that many artists use (but apparently don’t talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}