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One big branch of U.S. writing is tracing-paper realism. Like sidewalk portrait artists, its practitioners offer a quick, literal sketch drawn from life, but only superficially true to it. Two samples ...

20.5 x 19.75 in. (52.1 x 50.2 cm.) GIO PONTI (ITALIAN, 1891-1979). 'Rare Design Sketch' Watercolor on tracing paper. Signed and dated 'Settembre 1967' lower middle and left. Property of Ridgefield, CT ...

I CAN add to the testimony of Mr. Charles Taylor about the efficiency of a screen of tracing paper. I have used for several years a small screen of tracing cloth mounted on rollers like a map. It is ...

Which tracing paper is best? Tracing paper is useful for those who are learning to sketch as well as those drawing freehand. This style of paper usually is bound together in the form of an artist pad ...

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