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

Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 233

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sense drawing. His example (Fig. 22) gives you a sense of radiation, if you look pretty hard for it ; but the first thing that strikes you about it is, that every leaf is going just his own way. There are wandering lines mixed with the radiating ones, and radiating lines with the wild ones ; and… … Fig. 23. besides these two laws of radiation and of liberty : there is mystery. The confusion of light and reflection comes upon you as soon as you begin to do a spray a little way off with light upon it. In doing boughs in a room, as we have had it, you escaped all that ; but, if you took the same…

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