Our sketching club : letters and studies on landscape art (1874)
Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 151
ch you to work freely and evenly from left to right, as well as the other way. It means, in fact, nothing but radiation in ovoid form. There is no more sense in it than there is melody in a scale : but a certain readiness of hand is necessary to playing or drawing ; and I think it may be gained or… … Fig. 4. fact drawing, so much as preparing your hand to learn to draw pleasantly. Take this nonsense branch (Fig. 4). You may consider it as a convenient way of blocking out masses of leafage. In figure-work, the first 'block out' in almost straight lines has often much of the spirit of the form…
Landscape painting · Landscape drawing
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