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Some hints on learning to draw (1893)

Hutchinson, G. W. Caldwell, Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896 · London ; New York : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 137

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d,and lastly, what details are so unimportant that they may be leftout altogether. If you look at the object with eyes half closed,you will find that unimportant details appear lost to your sight, andlight and shade are more strongly defined, and so you will get a n8 SOME HINTS ON LEARNING TO DRAW… … Fig. 74. narrow line of light between two tints and adding a suggestionof shade ; but the treatment of such veins is very easily overdone,and only the very prominent ones should be thus shaded. Black COLOUR IN BLACK AND WHITE 119and white cannot show actual colour, but it can suggest it by

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