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How Reassuring: Manet Used Tracing Paper To Make Doodles Look Effortless

VISUAL Posted: November 10, 2019 7:30 am

So, Manet’s “off-the-cuff spontaneity” took a little more work than he, and art historians following his words, ever claimed. “Most of these things seem to have been traced from more searching and careful drawings that he’d made in his sketchbooks. He would take semi-transparent letter paper, lay it down over a sketchbook page, trace that design with a wash of grey watercolour and then basically colour it in with watercolour.” – The Observer (UK)

VISUAL Published: 11.09.19

Read the story in The Observer (UK) Published: 11.09.19

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