International studio (34.1908)

Art School Notes

aimed at or avoided. The lecturer made his
points clear by rapid sketches in charcoal, in which
he suggested the general principles of the structure
of the boat and the ship, and of the arrangement
of the sails and rigging. The treatment of sails
and masts in a picture was further explained during
the progress of a sketch in oil of a sailing ship in
harbour, executed in the presence of the audience.
Mr. Priestman explained in the simplest fashion
as he went along why and how everything was
done, and by the time he had finished the oil
sketch there was no one in the studio who had
not learnt something new about colour and exe-
cution as well as of the drawing of boats. Mr.
Priestman’s address was one of nine demonstra-
tions at the New School of Landscape Painting,
in which the treatment of skies, water, foliage and
buildings was explained and illustrated with
palette and brush. The course of lectures has
been an admirable preparation for the open-air
classes which Mr. Priestman will conduct in the
country during the summer.

At the Royal Academy schools the list of
subjects for the prize competitions for the year
has just been issued, and some of the students
are already busy making sketches for the pictures,
models and designs that are to be sent in on the
7th of November. The students at the Royal
Academy are more fortunate than those of any
other art school in the matter of awards, and
although 1908 is only a minor year (the gold
medals are biennial) more than ^350 is offered in
money prizes, in addition to silver medals and
books. “ Husbandry ” is the subject for the
competition for the prize of S\o offered for the
best design in water-colour or tempera for the
decoration of a portion of a public building; and
“ In an Orchard ” for the Creswick prize of
30 for the best landscape in oil. Competition
among the students is always keen for the ^’40
prize for decoration, as it carries with it the
possibility of a commission from the Academy
to carry out the design. Sculptor students are
offered a prize of ^’30, with a second prize of
^10, for the best model of a design in the
round to be executed at the Royal Academy
during six days in November, the subject to
be given out on the morning of the first day ;
and a silver medal for a running design con-
taining figure and ornament for the frieze of a
library. For the architects the chief prize this
year is a travelling studentship (England) of
^60, offered for a design for “ An Open-air

Bath of Architectural Character situated in a Public
Park.” A silver medal will be given for a design
for “ A Domed Chapel ” with coloured decoration.
The other prizes offered at the Academy include
silver medals and money for drawing, painting
and modelling from the life, and for studies in per-
spective, the Armitage prizes of ^30 and SI(D f°r
figure design in monochrome, and a medal and
premium of S25 f°r a life-sized cartoon in chalk
or charcoal of “A Draped Female Figure on a
Wind-swept Seashore.”
Last year the poster competition at the New Art
School was a great success. Nearly three hundred
drawings were sent in, and many of these were by
Continental students. The first of May is the last
day upon which designs will be received for the
competition of the present year, and those who
wish to submit drawings should apply at once to
the secretary of the New Art School, Mr. W.
Francklyn Helmore, 3 Logan Place, Kensington, W.


PENCIL DRAWING BY ALFRED FRANCE
(The New Art School, EarFs Court)
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