This Leonardo Da Vinci Grid Drawing is a great way to teach your students about Da Vinci and how to draw. The clear image shows quality-of-line, direction-of-line and a range of values; all things you want your students to include in their drawings. The image is one of Da Vinci’s famous foetus drawings which form part of his wider works on anatomical drawings.
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In many cases a single topic is covered in detail in both words and pictures on a single sheet, together conveying information that would not be lost if the pages were published out of order. Leonardo’s approach to science was observational: he tried to understand a phenomenon by describing and depicting it in utmost detail and did not emphasise experiments or theoretical explanation. Since he lacked formal education in Latin and mathematics, contemporary scholars mostly ignored Leonardo the scientist, although he did teach himself Latin. In the 14 he studied mathematics under Luca Pacioli and prepared a series of drawings of regular solids in a skeletal form to be engraved as plates for Pacioli’s book