The W. Martin Johnson school of art. Elementary instruction in color, perspective, lights and shadows, pen drawing and composition (1909)
Johnson, William Martin, 1862- [from old catalog] · New York city · leaf 42
oad ties, the cross arms on the telegraph poles,remain parallel to the picture frame and are not in per-spective. Furthermore, all lines which are upright 34 and plumb are parallel to the sides of your picture,and, therefore, not in perspective. The vanishingpoint in this example is the point of… … Figure 2 the eye, the railroad track, the telegraph poles,etc., you have drawn the picture on its perspec-tive plane. The station point is the eye or the point fromwhich the picture is seen. In making a perspectivedrawing, the point of station and the perspectiveplane must always remain at a fixed…
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