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Phase 1


Phase 1

The old masters start by laying out a geometric grid of the picture.

To graph their subjects,
students of the old masters
looked through a grid of strings.

I drew a basic graph and many diagonal guide lines.  Done correctly, this graph will be "dead accurate"!   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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