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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 209

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i9o SOME HINTS ON LEARNING TO DRAW always work directly from nature, but from their sketches orphotographs, are sure to fall into mannerisms, or habits of represent-ing certain things in a certain way, and seldom vary their mannerof doing so. One mans trees, anothers buildings, which alwaysappear… … Fig. 115.—Pen-and-ink drawing, by J. Pennell. direct to nature and aims at truth, working only with nature beforehim, has less mannerism than he who does not. We must alsoremember that pen and ink cannot express tone as paint or charcoalwill ; it is work in wThich our powers of selection must be…

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