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 61
colours that I first began to do pencil drawings,which, in less than a fortnight, I found myself able towork up to a much higher degree of finish than any I hadever seen *. * Let not the student tax me with vanity in making this asser-tion, as I consider finished pencil drawing (as far as regards… … ■vv ^^^H Seas** l^^^* LANDSCAPE. 35 The method I followed was to copy the rich wavinglines which we see in the best wood-cuts, and which Iadapted to the representation of earth, rocks, buildings,#c. ; whilst the manner of finishing trees and tree-stems I gained by copying the engravings of…
Drawing · Watercolor painting · Color
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