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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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r examination of the busheswill, however, sufficiently shew the manner of its execu-tion. The more distant parts of the bushes must be donewith an H pencil, whilst those nearer the foreground willrequire an H B. When the student has drawn the above-mentionedsubject two or three times over, he may then proceed tothe following subjects, which consist of specimens of thefoliage of different trees. With these studies he oughtto make himself most intimately acquainted by repeat-edly copying them, at least ten times over each, or tillhe knows them so thoroughly that he can draw themperfectly well without looking at the originals, by whichtime he will have acquired a certain capability of hand-ling that will enable him to produce at least a steadyeven line, with some attempt at form, more particularlyof foliage, which is the mpst difficult to manage. The first is a representation of ivy growing on a wall,the branches of which are long and straggling, and seemas if they grew into one another.
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The next is the weeping willow, invariably found nearwater, into which its branches frequently droop. % LANDSCAPE.
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