The elements of drawing in three letters to beginners (1898)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Maynard, Merrill ; London : G. Allen · leaf 162
a Fig. 18. broccoli as to throw the great mass of sprayand leafage out to a rounded surface. There-fore beware of getting into a careless habitof drawing boughs with successive sweeps ofthe pen or brush, one hanging to the other,as in Fig. 19. If you look at the tree-boughs … Fig. 19. in any painting of Wilsons you will seethis structure, and nearly every other that isto be avoided, in their intensest types. Youwill also notice that Wilson never conceives letter ii.] SKETCHING FROM NATURE. 123 a tree as a round mass, but flat, as if ithad been pressed and dried. Most…
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