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

Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 230

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he pen, and mark your outlines in vigorously, as in the Liber Studiorum. This kind of work seems specially necessary for some of the hardest still-life workers, and steadiest copyists in the club. Deliberate exactness is much, but it is not all, and can't do everything ; not the things we want most… … Fig. 20. flying as well as sitting. Somebody would not try to draw a thrush for me the other day, 'because the bird wouldn't stand still to be drawn.' That's art-school all over ; but it will not make a draughtsman from Nature. You must learn to use the inner eye, the imagination or memory; I'm…

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