Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 325
ures.But as soon as you haveFig. is. drawn trees carefully a little while, 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… … SKETCHING. 277 or roughening the surface, but is always associated withsuch delicate expressions of form and growth as are onlyimitable by very careful drawing. The penknife passedlightly over this careful drawing, will do a good deal; butyou must accustom yourself, from the beginning, to aimmuch…
Art · Aesthetics
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