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 47
THE YELLOW ROSE. 43 gradually have a slight tendency to overlap one another, and that they all trend towards the point of each leaflet. They must be drawn correctly; no mere jagged zigzag line will express their nature in any degree. In the same manner the thorns require careful drawing; contrary… … Bud and Fruit of the Rose — Enlarged. intended by the all-wise Creator to protect the flowers from the incursions of slugs or other enemies that might attempt to ascend the stalk. When the outline is quite correct it must be softened off as usual with stale bread crumbs, and we may go on with the…
Watercolor painting
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