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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
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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w circles and arches per-fect with the hand alone. In the above enumeration of materials I have pur-posely omitted the pallet to rub colours upon, as a com-mon clean white plate will answer the purpose muchbetter. LESSON XI. On the Outline and finishing Landscape in Pencil. The student having provided himself with a penknife,Indian rubber, a piece of paper, and three pencils markedH, H B, and B B, should place himself at a table in sucha manner that he may have the window either towardshis left hand, or immediately in front of him ; the formeris, however, the best. The reason why these two po-sitions are to be preferred is, that when he sits with hisright hand towards the light, the shadow of his righthand and arm fall on that part of the paper on which heis working, as, in drawing as well as writing, the studentshould work from left to right, because when he beginshis drawing on the right side of it, he is obliged to resthis hand on the part which is finished, in order to do the L 11
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28 LANDSCAPE. form and effect of the subject of his imitation, ratherthan the manner and touch ; and from this mode ofpractice an original style of execution will be obtained*.Let the student, after he has drawn the first subjecttwo or three times, till he has acquired the power ofimitating it exactly, proceed to the cottage, fig. 2, which
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