Decorative Artists in Canada

ABN Grid System

The old masters used to draw a grid on their support and a matching grid for the reference material, copy what's in the squares and then erase all the grids on the support. That wonderful technique is still being used today, but my problem is, I can't stand wasting time drawing and erasing all those lines. So Joe and I created the Art by Nature Grid System. You don't have to draw a single line and everything is provided to you, including the master grid, reduction & enlarging templates and detailed instructions to create sketches of photos of different sizes. The sketches that you create can be used as a "re-usable" line drawing and graphite paper is no longer needed.

Here is a video demonstrating the ABN Grid System so you can see how I used it to create a re-usable line drawing of a horse head:

For more information, go to www.artplace.ca and click on the ABN Grid System link.