Handbook of light and shade, with especial reference to model drawing (1880)
Merrifield, Mary P. (Mary Philadelphia), 1804 or 1805-1889 · London : George Rowney & Co. · leaf 70
s have been carefullystudied, the learner will have become familiar with thelight and shade incident to the more simple geometri-cal solids, from which all other forms are derived.They are, to the painter or draftsman, what the lettersof the alphabet are to the writer—the observing eyedetects them… … LIGHT AND SHADE. 43 The cube and parallelopiped are the model on whichhouses, boxes, books, beds, chairs, and various articlesof furniture are formed. The triangular prism maybe discerned in the roofs of houses, in nights of stairs,in tents, in desks. Hexagonal prisms in the cells of bees.…
Shades and shadows in art · Drawing
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