It’s a widely held belief that the Old Masters were exactly that: masters, such as da Vinci and Vermeer, who painted in flawlessly precise freehand. There are savants with steady hands, no question.

Back at the end of May I wrote about a great Kickstarter project which updated the Camera Lucida. The Neo Lucida is a prism on a bendy stick that you can use to superimpose the scene in front of you ...

With regard to my previous blogs – Mega-cool Camera Lucida app for the iPad and Stand back! I’m poised to use my Camera Lucida iPad app! – I just created my first drawing using my iPad Camera Lucida.

Artist David Hockney once stirred up controversy by asserting that many of the great Dutch masters—folks like Vermeer and Ingres—had relied on optical drawing aids to create their masterpieces. Now ...

WHEN drawing objects under a microscope with a camera lucida the size of the drawing is normally dependent solely on the magnification of the microscope. Usually this magnification can be adjusted to ...

I have three very good reasons to write this post. One is that the camera lucida is just a kick-ass gadget, the kind of thing that all you creative iOwning folks out there will presumably love. Second ...