Walker, William, b. 1821 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 185
nner in drawing, to copy leaves in flat symmetricalform, like the Ivy-leaf in Fig. 119, and if he has a correcteye and steady hand he may soon draw detached leavesvery beautifully. But here is the danger: he is likely tobecome mechanical, for the drawing of flat scroll - workand flat leaves has… … Fig. 119. Fig. 120. object in space, with all the exquisite changes of curve andsurface, and there is now more properly a field for Art-expression (see Fig. 120). In this kind of work two things should be observed :first, to draw the leaves with strict botanical accuracy,whether in the correct…
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