Art recreations : being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting ... moss work, papier mache...wax work, shell work...enamel painting, etc. (1871)
Urbino, L. B. (Levina Buoncuore), d. 1888, Day, Henry · Boston : J.E. Tilton · leaf 29
the first thing to be drawn. Draw a straightline, and upon it mark with a dotted or faint line thewidth of the mouth, center, thickness of lips, etc., givingcareful attention to the form ; then develop these marksinto a correct outline of the form to be imitated, and theremaining steps of filling… … will enable the learner in a short time to preserve therelative proportions as well without as with this line. DRAWING. 23 In making the lines which give form or rotundity, com-mence with the most prominent ones, attending carefullyto all the details of light and shade, and not attemptingtoo rapid…
Handicraft -- 19th century · Decoration and ornament · Decorative arts
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