DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19949#0009
PREFACE.
Many students possessing a certain degree of skill
in the use of the lead-pencil and chalk are, for want
of acquaintance with the necessary rules, entirely at a
loss when attempting to commence a landscape sketch
from nature; the principal difficulties they experience
being, to determine where to commence the sketch,
and how much of the subject before them they ought
to include within the limits of the paper.
Attention to the precepts contained in the following
pages, will, it is hoped, clear away these, and many other
difficulties, that obstruct the essay of the sketcher.
The short cause of instruction laid down is purely
elementary, and confined to linear sketching. The
limits of this little work do not admit of the intro-
duction of the more advanced stages of colouring, and
its complex manipulations. These, however, are ren-
Many students possessing a certain degree of skill
in the use of the lead-pencil and chalk are, for want
of acquaintance with the necessary rules, entirely at a
loss when attempting to commence a landscape sketch
from nature; the principal difficulties they experience
being, to determine where to commence the sketch,
and how much of the subject before them they ought
to include within the limits of the paper.
Attention to the precepts contained in the following
pages, will, it is hoped, clear away these, and many other
difficulties, that obstruct the essay of the sketcher.
The short cause of instruction laid down is purely
elementary, and confined to linear sketching. The
limits of this little work do not admit of the intro-
duction of the more advanced stages of colouring, and
its complex manipulations. These, however, are ren-