The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons, calculated to afford those who are unacquainted with the art, the means of acquiring a competent knowledge without the aid of a master : being the only work of the kind in which the principles of effect are explained in a clear, methodical, and at the same time familiar style (1827)
Smith, Thomas, watercolorist, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, publisher, Clowes, William, 1779-1847, printer · London : Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row · leaf 54
istance in determining the nature of theshade side of objects, whether they be rough or smooth,4rc $*. Each line ought also to be of the same thick-ness from end to end, and not small in the beginning andbroad at the end, which is always the case with learners,owing to their laying on lightly in… … the manner of shading which is extremely difficult to (I 1 \ I •i V 30 LANDSCAPE. h > describe, otherwise than by saying that it is a continualrepetition of the outline growing somewhat strongertowards the interior ; a near examination of the busheswill, however, sufficiently shew the manner of…
Drawing · Watercolor painting · Color
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