Artical About Gravel Grids
The Ground Base Grid can be used to plot all of the points in the vista seen through that loop. After that, those points can be transferred to the grid-inscribed paper on the right table. Therefore, the steeple can be plotted at B3 on the paper if it is located at B3 in the grid frame. When an artist wants to paint a scene at "sight size," the painting or drawing is exactly like the image on a piece of glass that is perpendicular to the line of sight. You could see a scene through a window and see the main lines directly on the glass if you could keep your head still and look through only one eye. A drawing that perfectly reflects the observed scene would then be created by drawing those lines on paper. Albrecht Durer, a Renaissance artist, made the idea better. The artist appears to be drawing lines on a piece of glass propped up in front of the seated model, as the vertical post holds the artist in place. Durer draws another setup in 1525. He is this time looking at the la...