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Our sketching club : letters and studies on landscape art (1874)

Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 205

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f his shading lines, but scratched in the rounding forms of the Saint's head and drapery with the easiest straight lines he could draw, from the right downwards to the left. You have been taught also to do your shading by unmeaning crossed lines and stipple, as at Fig. 31. But in doing Nos. 11, 12,… … Fig. 1 5. shade is deepest where light falls steepest, and that where the rays are first fully intercepted will infallibly be the darkest part of your shadow. In drawing an orange in light and shade, the little rough- ness of the rind is best expressed at the edge of the light ; because there all…

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