Our sketching club : letters and studies on landscape art (1874)
Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 206
i88 OUR SKETCHING CLUB. This is a good example of leaf-perspective at three distances ; you will observe that as soon as it is removed a few yards from the eye, as at (£) it becomes a dark line ; and again at (c) it is almost unintel- ligible ; and this accounts for the great uncertainty and… … Fig. 16. If you want a set of simple outline-subjects, you cannot do better than choose out a set of full-grown leaves of various trees ; dry them flat, and gum them on cards. Copy their outlines, stems, and principal ribs exactly, and your command of line will increase daily : — besides which you…
Landscape painting · Landscape drawing
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