English·Português
Free gift · The Forty Days · 101

Plínio Santos FilhoPh.D.
EN · PT
Physicist · Artist · Teacher

Books, drawings, and the
daily art of seeing.

Drawing · Painting · Visual Perception · Artistic Anatomy · Art History · Printmaking
I

Books

The Testamentum collection and every title.

Enter the library →
II

Courses

The Act of Drawing — a method of seeing differently.

Begin drawing →
III

Art

Drawings and paintings — the teacher in the gallery.

See the work →
The Collection

The Books

A growing shelf — each title on its own page, straight to its Amazon edition.

EMML 2358, Folio 2r — the Geʿez of the Testamentum Domini
EMML 2358 · Folio 2r
The Source · EMML 2358 · Ethiopia, 16th century

The Testamentum Domini

The Geʿez manuscript behind the whole Collection — a sixteenth-century leaf from an Ethiopian monastery, carried into English for the first time. Read slowly, one word at a time, with the original page kept open beside every line.

ዓ ሰ ሙ ፡፡ አ ሜ ን ♣
“World without end · Amen” — the sealing formula of EMML 2358
Enter the manuscript →
Essays

Notes from the workshop

Long-form writing on the books and how they come to be made. To begin: how a whole book arrived as fifty-one photographs on a flowered tablecloth.

Read: From Gutenberg to KDP →
Free · Courses

The Act of Drawing

A method of seeing differently, discovered during a physics doctorate. Watch a short study, then draw — same time, same place, twenty-one days. Enter your email for the free mini-course & eBook.

From the atelier

Original drawings and paintings. To acquire or ask about a work, write to Plínio directly. We launch with two works and the gallery grows.

Recife · acrylic on canvas · 2020
Olinda · acrylic on canvas · 2020
WhatsApp