With brush and pen : suggestions for some of the newer phases of public school art instruction (1897)
Hall, James, 1869-1917 · New York : The J. C. Witter Company · leaf 69
line,~and shadows are butweakly shown. There is no definiteness of value, nolarge mass of dark to give force or richness of effect,and the pen has been timidly used throughout with novariety or beauty of line. To darken the trees, mean-ingless cross-hatching has been introduced, and yetthey are not… … yy* The second drawing shows what a more clever tyrois apt to fall into—spottiness of effect. Compare thisdrawing with its forced darks, and its false lights, itslack of simplicity in massing, and its generally unquietand cut-up appearance with the drawings that are givenas examples of simple…
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