So I got suckered into purchasing the Lucy Tool, the "updated camera lucida used by artists like Vermeer" I always wanted to try one of those, mostly because it has no electricity involved, so I figured it was in my wheelhouse. I've used gridding and projectors throughout my life and they are various degrees of pains in the ass, but still useful. This Lucy is easy enough to set up and figure out but only for young eyes, mine couldn't deal with it within two minutes and I had to go lie down and cover them up to rest. So, frustrated, I took the pic I had taken of my niece on a phone camera and just let my husband the computer whisperer set it up with a computer projector and got it onto a 16x20 canvas and painted it in. I like the results, would probably like it better in oils but don't have the patience. Too bad about the Lucy, but I'm going to keep it and maybe someday amaze children. The optics are really pretty cool.
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