The elements of drawing in three letters to beginners (1895)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London : George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington · leaf 192
IOO THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING, [letter ii. the entire outline of the leaves, yet if the spray has light upon it, and is ever so little a way off, you will miss, as we have seen, a point of a leaf here, and an edge there ; some of the surfaces will be confused by glitter, and some spotted with shade;… … Fig. 25. be neither like Fig. 9 nor Fig. 24, but such an interrupted and puzzling piece of work as Fig. 25. 1 132. Now, it is in the perfect acknowledg- ment and expression of these tJirce laws that all good drawing of landscape consists. 1 I draw this figure (a young shoot of oak) in outline only,…
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