Universal Principles of Art

63 PREPARE AND DEVELOP

PLANNING PRACTICES AND TECHNIQUES

Many artists engage in planning and developmental stages for works of art. Although approaches to such planning can be infinitely various, a number of methods have proved fruitful and popular over the centuries. Ideas can be worked up in rough sketches, drawings, finished drawings, and even full-scale rough versions of the more finished work to come. In Italian Renaissance art, cartoons, or full-scale drawings, were used in preparation for frescos and other large-scale works such as tapestries or murals. The use of sketchbooks began almost as soon as paper became available, and they continue to be widely used by artists as a private space where ideas can be explored and problems solved. ...