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Vintage Tablet
How does the artist render a famous painting using a toy?
Have you ever tried a drawing app on a tablet? Artist Jane Labowitch draws on a tablet—sort of. She creates detailed drawings, like this re-creation of Georges Seurat’s 1884 painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, on her Etch A Sketch.
Just like an artist copying a masterpiece in a museum with a pencil and paper, Labowitch uses her Etch A Sketch to carefully capture each form in Seurat’s painting. She uses the two white knobs to move aluminum powder behind a plastic-coated glass screen to draw each line. It took the artist 8 hours to complete this drawing.
Labowitch began drawing with an Etch A Sketch when she was 4 years old. Twenty years later, she’s turned her hobby into a full-time art career. “I’m doing exactly what I dreamed of,” she explains.
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