art+works

All right! If you've been doing the homework, you have now drawn out a flat acanthus leaf with all of the necessary components of its d...

Ok! Whew! Hopefully if you are reading this you have gotten as far as drawing the basic structure and outline of the acanthus leaf as I hav...

Now that we've got the basic structure of the leaf and the position of the eyelets, it's time to form the lobes of the leaf. As I m...

As I said in the last post, the acanthus leaf is a mix of natural and artificial; evocative of plants in its details, but grounded by a geo...

Prelude: This is the first lesson of several that I will post here on the origin, usage, and construction of acanthus leaf ornament in...

One of the rarely acknowledged benefits of the erosion of the monuments of ancient sites is the revelation of the sculptural substructures...