How Reassuring: Manet Used Tracing Paper To Make Doodles Look Effortless
(ArtsJournal Dance)

So, Manet’s “off-the-cuff spontaneityâ€� took a little more work than he, and art historians following his words, ever claimed. “Most of these things seem to have been traced from more searching and careful drawings that he´d made in his sketchbooks. He would take semi-transparent letter paper, lay it down over a sketchbook page, trace that […]