Bargue Plate 1, 1. Eyes (Yeux)

I ordered Bargue Plates 1 thru 10, and I have started on Plate 1 the eyes. My first eye was very easy to do, and the 12”x16” print really helped. I drew the first eye freehand, and then checked the measurements using plumb lines. I am very excited to be learning this style of drawing, and I am so happy to have found Bargue Plate Supply, who does the printing from 12”x16” all the way up to 18”x24”. It really makes it easy because trying to enlarge from the Ackerman book proved to be difficult. Thank you Gerard!!! I have sent the duplicate set of prints to the Director of The Columbus Cultural Arts Center.

I became interested in these plates after reading about Vincent Van Gogh using them as part of his artistic training. I first bought the course book on Amazon yet those plates were hard to copy. These plates come in the right size to copy as they were originally intended. I tried to get a local print shop to enlarge the plates from the book, yet that didn’t work. These plates were less inexpensive and more accurate than the print shop alternative. They also were delivered in a timely and well packaged manner. I think copying these plates will make much better at live figure drawing.