Ladies' manual of art : or, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel and crayon drawing, taxidermy, etc (1887)
Philadelphia : American Mutual Library Association · leaf 22
right line, equal in length, forming a compound curve, thebasis of two-thirds of all the capital letters. A combination ofcurves lying horizontally, as in fig. 2, gives the line which is SKETCHING FROM NATURE. 13 formed by the meeting of the lips, from these different lines oursketches from nature… … point called the center. From a to b will be found the left, orconvex, and from c to d the right, or concave curve. The wholemay be made by a quick movement of the hand, with crayon, onthe black-board, thus •• Turn your right side to the board, placethe crayon at the bottom, c, and with the elbow…
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