The elements of drawing in three letters to beginners (1895)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London : George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington · leaf 205
173 letter ii.] SKETCHING FROM NATURE. the line runs into the middle of the branch, and the actual outline of the branch at that place may be dimly seen, or not at all ; and it is then only by the future shade that its actual … Fig. 28. shape, or the cause of its disappearance, will be indicated. 140. One point more remains to be noted about trees, and I have done. In the minds of our ordinary water-colour artists a distant tree seems only to be conceived as a flat
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