rod
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I know some engravers like to listen to music while they work.
I like music, but prefer to listen to intelligent speech while I work, and I rarely involve anything above the heart and muscle, trusting the body to do the work.
So my preferred listening is the British BBC radio 4, free internet broadcast. Britain collects about $150 per TV-owning household, to amass a very large budget and produce excellent programmes on all subjects. They only allow Radio to be freely heard abroad, and that suits me fine.
Yesterday's "Saturday Play", "On the Ceiling" set in the 16th century, is a one-hour fanciful look at the Sistine Chapel ceiling project, through the eyes of some of the fresco artisans who were later fired by the Master. You can hear it from the BBC archives at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00h9dl2/Saturday_Play_On_the_Ceiling
Often the engraver works out design ideas in a handy page-sized drawing, which is then reduced to a tiny real life size, and transfered to metal for cutting. Michaelangelo did the reverse of scaling, working on a convenient sized cartoon with graph-paper-like grid, which his assistants later laid out in a hugely expanded scale on the Chapel ceiling, then drew in the full size outline to prepare the 'canvas' for the artist. Engravers work on an unforgiving canvas, likewise when working on fresh plaster circumstance again are pretty unforgiving, I am told.
This play is superficially light hearted, yet touches on things that interest us all, and moves forward to the discarding of tried and true methods in favor of breaking new ground ... the master's move from standing on thick safer ice, to thin ice.
You may enjoy listening as you work?
best
Rod
I like music, but prefer to listen to intelligent speech while I work, and I rarely involve anything above the heart and muscle, trusting the body to do the work.
So my preferred listening is the British BBC radio 4, free internet broadcast. Britain collects about $150 per TV-owning household, to amass a very large budget and produce excellent programmes on all subjects. They only allow Radio to be freely heard abroad, and that suits me fine.
Yesterday's "Saturday Play", "On the Ceiling" set in the 16th century, is a one-hour fanciful look at the Sistine Chapel ceiling project, through the eyes of some of the fresco artisans who were later fired by the Master. You can hear it from the BBC archives at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00h9dl2/Saturday_Play_On_the_Ceiling
Often the engraver works out design ideas in a handy page-sized drawing, which is then reduced to a tiny real life size, and transfered to metal for cutting. Michaelangelo did the reverse of scaling, working on a convenient sized cartoon with graph-paper-like grid, which his assistants later laid out in a hugely expanded scale on the Chapel ceiling, then drew in the full size outline to prepare the 'canvas' for the artist. Engravers work on an unforgiving canvas, likewise when working on fresh plaster circumstance again are pretty unforgiving, I am told.
This play is superficially light hearted, yet touches on things that interest us all, and moves forward to the discarding of tried and true methods in favor of breaking new ground ... the master's move from standing on thick safer ice, to thin ice.
You may enjoy listening as you work?
best
Rod
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