Done in 1484, it is an image, in silverpoint, of a longhaired youth with baby-fat cheeks and wide-open, mesmerized eyes gazing, almost certainly, at his reflection. |
Until this year the drawings were all in black pencil, varying from soft, deep-black graphite to feathery silverpoint, and sometimes ranging widely in a single image. |
It is interesting to find that Leighton's famous Lemon Tree drawing in silverpoint was exhibited here. |
I've experimented with a broad range of media, including watercolor, silverpoint, etching, silkscreen and others, but oils have a richness and tactile feel I really love. |
In the past, she has hung whole rooms with her own silkscreened wallpaper, the paper covered with intricate and precise silverpoint spirals. |
In a zoo in Ghent, he saw his first live lions and drew them too, swiftly, softly, in silverpoint, the medium of his youth. |