A major painting would often begin as a modello i.e., an oil sketch painted by Rubens on a small panel, after which he would make preparatory drawings of individual figures within the composition.
Unlike many sculptors, Caro does not make preparatory drawings, or scale- model maquettes, but works directly from the material (he has a roomful of maquettes which, however, are made after completion of the piece itself).
He sat in a chair, rapping, while Dan the Man shot video and Mr. Melamid made preparatory sketches and photographs.
Some time later, Macdonald began work on a sculpture of Parker's head, for which she had been making preparatory sketches during his visits.
In pre-paper days, European artists made preparatory sketches on wax-covered wood blocks or palettes covered with a white calcium substance, which could be smoothed or scraped away, leaving no trace.
I once visited the artist David Salle in his studio, on White Street, when he was making preparatory collages for a series of paintings based on consumer products, and he told me that he had noticed himself being obsessively drawn to two images: watches and shoes.
The reason he could paint works on such a scale was because he planned the compositions carefully, making preparatory drawings of the figures, so that when he came to paint, as his biographer Ridolfi noted, "He never put his brush in the wrong place".
Additional uses of the colourant include making preparatory designs on cloth before dyeing with other pigments.
It is not known whether he visited Temeraire, though he did go aboard Victory, making preparatory notes and sketches and interviewing sailors who had been in the battle.
At this time Moore gradually transitioned from direct carving to casting in bronze, modelling preliminary maquettes in clay or plaster rather than making preparatory drawings.
This knowledge was an open secret among the shore party; Marshall recorded in his diary that he was "glad to see the last of [England]... whole thing damned disgrace to name of country!" After Nimrod's departure, the sea ice broke up, cutting off the party's route to the Barrier and thus making preparatory sledging and depot-laying impossible.
