The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction (1847)
Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889 · New York : J.S. Redfield · leaf 31
Even in the sketches of artists of eminence, this manner is often perceptible, from the habitthey have of massing, or blocking out, as it were, their figures \ which, however allowable andproper in a master-hand, is, nevertheless, to be avoided by the beginner, until he acquires sufficientstrength…
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