Our sketching club : letters and studies on landscape art (1874)
Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 221
OUR SKETCHING CLUB. 203 branches each try for the bounding curve in the same way ; so that the branch-type isn't anyhow, but so as to take its proper share in the great curve, as at b. I observe that some members of the club have a care- less way of drawing boughs with successive sweeps of the pen… … Fig. 18. — which is about the worst conceivable. But all un- meaning tricks of hand are to be avoided everywhere. I compared a rather drooping bough seen from below, to your hands held palm downwards, as in piano-playing. If you hold your hands out before a glass, palm up- wards, and with open…
Landscape painting · Landscape drawing
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