Teachers' manual for freehand drawing in primary schools (1878)
Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 · Toronto : Adam Miller & co. · leaf 115
but a combina-tion of these two or three lines, can be quite as readi-ly drawn. Symmetry is, indeed, the key whichunlocks many of the secrets of design and drawing. See that your pupils, when they examine the draw-ings on their slates, do not look at them obliquely;for, if they look at them thus,… … Symmetrical Airaneement about the Centre of an Equi-lateral Triangle. Instead of a square for thegeometrical basis, take, thistime, an equilateral triangle.Having drawn the triangle,bisect each side; from eachpoint of bisection, draw astraight line to the oppositeangle. The lines will crosseach…
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