Our sketching club : letters and studies on landscape art (1874)
Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 45
27 OUR SKETCHING CLUB. point of the brush and body-colour. Of course the nearer you hold it to your eye, the larger space it will cover. Then copy said lines carefully on paper. That will be the true perspective of the subjects. Do this for a short time, — once a day for a while, — and your per-… … That 's one thing. Then set a square block on a table before you, six feet off, and make its nearest edge parallel with the edge of the table : sit with the block a little to your left ; then you can see its right side, and its top
Landscape painting · Landscape drawing
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