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 323
r, or figures.But as soon as you havedrawn trees carefully a littlewhile, you will be impressed,and impressed more strongly the better you draw them,with the idea of their softness of surface. A distant treeis not a flat and even piece of colour, but a more or lessglobular mass of a downy or bloomy… … SKETCniNG. 277 or roughening the surface, but is always associated withsuch dehcate expressions of form and growth as are onlyiiuitable by very careful drawing. The penknife passedlightly over this careful dra\ving, will do a good deal; butyou must accustom yourself, from the beginning, to aimmuch…
Art · Aesthetics
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