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 51
y it aside, well wiped, for another day.He had no arbitrary method of holding the pen, as if all hands, and the length and action of allfingers, were alike, but simply showed us what we had to do, and left to the natural action of thehand to find its most easy command of the pen. The paper ruled in… … observing to press the pen at top and bottom, so as to expand the nib, and produce the properdegree of angularity in the terminations ; holding it with even pressure, to maintain an equal widththroughout the line. It was a difficult, and seemed almost a hopeless effort, at first ; but after apage…
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