Art culture: a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Platt, W. H. (William Henry), 1821-1898 · New York : Wiley · leaf 293
ss habit of drawing boughs with sac-cessive sweeps of the pen or brush, one hanging to theother, as in Fig. 9. If you look at the tree-boughs inany painting of Wilsons, you will see this structure, andnearly every other that is to be avoided, in their intensest 246 SKETCHING. types. You will also… … Fig. 9, sides of the trunk, instead of all round it; always, there-fore, take more pains in trying to draw the boughs oftrees that grow towards you, than those that go oft tothe sides; anybody can draw the latter, but the fore-shortened ones are not so easy. It will help you in draw-ing them to…
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