Vere Foster's simple lessons in water-color, flowers : eight facsimiles of original water-color drawings and numerous outline drawings of flowers, after various artists, with full instructions for drawing and painting (1884)
Foster, Vere, 1819-1900 · London : Blackie & Son · leaf 46
42 THE YELLOW ROSE. them, before beginning to sketch the more difficult plate. The drawing of the bud is beautifully simple, and explains the convolutions of the wrapt-up petals. That of the fruit is given to show the contrasting shape, in which it serves as a foil to the drawing of the bud. The… … Rose Leaf — Enlarged. — (From the South Kensington Drawmg-Book.) The sketching of the colored example will be found rather more elaborate than anything we have yet attempted in these pages. Special diligence and care will be required to express the petals of the flowers to perfection. The crumpled…
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