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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 171

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liam Hunt tells us, look first for the big things.First, proportions ; second, values, or masses of light and shade ;and third, details that will not spoil our beginnings. And this thirditem is most intensely important in landscape work, such studiesfrom nature as Alfred Parsonss drawing of… … Fig. 96.— The Avon near Tewkesbury, by Alfred Parsons. BREADTH OF TREATMENT 153 makes the values all wrong. Better far put in too little than toomuch. Painters will tell you that to finish their pictures they haveoften to take out a good deal they have put in, as it is not needed.That is a useful…

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