At its most basic level, it’s a prism on a stick. Aim it at an object, put your eye just above the prism and on the paper below appears a ghost image beside a busy pencil. “Within 72 hours, we had ...

As long ago as 1807 – and possibly up to 200 years earlier – many artists used an optical device known as a camera lucida to help them in sketching subjects. A controversial theory even suggests that ...

The NeoLucida, a simple optical drawing tool, is set to disrupt the way artists work. It’s a widely held belief that the Old Masters were exactly that: masters, such as da Vinci and Vermeer, who ...

Anyone who enjoys sketching and would like to be able to capture and outline of the subject they are painting or drawing a little quicker may be interested in a new piece of equipment created by the ...

A couple of days ago (Friday 10 May 2013) I became aware of a rather interesting project on KickStarter.com. Two guys – Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin – have designed something called the NeoLucida, ...

*Back from the dead via Pablo Garcia and no less a man than Golan Levin. "We have designed the NeoLucida: the first portable camera lucida to be manufactured in nearly a century — and the lowest-cost ...