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Title: The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons, calculated to afford those who are unacquainted with the art, the means of acquiring a competent knowledge without the aid of a master : being the only work of the kind in which the principles of effect are explained in a clear, methodical, and at the same time familiar style
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Smith, Thomas, watercolorist Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, publisher Clowes, William, 1779-1847, printer
Subjects: Drawing Watercolor painting Color
Publisher: London : Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row
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ly as pos-sible, and to shew to what degree of perfection pencildrawing can be carried by any person who will take thetrouble to learn ; for if the student be determined tomake finished pencil sketches, I would have him dothem well or not at all. And as an encouragement tobeginners, and a proof of the facility with which a personwho can already draw in colours may learn to finishvery highly in pencil, I must state, that it was long afterI had acquired a tolerable capability of painting inwater-colours that I first began to do pencil drawings,which, in less than a fortnight, I found myself able towork up to a much higher degree of finish than any I hadever seen *. * Let not the student tax me with vanity in making this asser-tion, as I consider finished pencil drawing (as far as regards theexecution only, and not with regard to effect or composition) as thelowest effort of art. A person with the slightest knowledge ofdrawing may acquire through patience, and practice, as finished a I t
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?vv ^^^H Seas** l^^^* LANDSCAPE. 35 The method I followed was to copy the rich wavinglines which we see in the best wood-cuts, and which Iadapted to the representation of earth, rocks, buildings,#c. ; whilst the manner of finishing trees and tree-stems I gained by copying the engravings of Woolett,and the finishing of animals from those of Scott: andand this is the method I would strongly recommend tothose who wish to acquire ability in this part of theprofession, the easiest and lowest, though possessingconsiderable beauty when well executed.. LESSON XII. On Drawing in Indian Ink. Though (as I have before observed) I considerlearning to draw in Indian ink before learning to draw incolours, as a perfect waste of time, I shall still, incompliance with the custom of most drawing-masters,give my lesson on this department of the art before Iproceed to colouring; advising, at the same time, thatthe student should pass it oyer for the reasons I havegiven in the Introduction : for the same
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