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OF THE HORIZONTAL LINE.
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when carefully guided over the apparent outline of the
objects would leave, by means of colour or any other
substance, the traces of its path.
As it is impossible to adopt this process in drawing
from nature—the material on which the outline is then made
being a non-transparent medium, that is, paper,—it is
clear that sketching can be only effected by a distinct
apprehension of the real forms of the objects themselves,
and of those apparent forms under which they are pre-
sented to the eye in their different positions m the
landscape.
Now all these objects have their real outlines com-
posed either of straight lines, or of curved lines, or of
both, which either may be irregular in their relation to
each other, or may follow certain given laws and con-
ditions. If the latter be the case, these laws are, for
the most part, of such a simple character as to admit
of being easily comprehended j and when once the prin-
ciples, which we shall by-and-by enumerate, are mastered
and understood, the student will find, in the repre-
sentation of more complex forms of outline, an increasing
facility, as his judgment becomes more matured, and his
eye more correct.
OF THE HORIZONTAL LINE.
If a spectator were placed in a flat horizontal plain,
the water or ground which he would have in view before
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when carefully guided over the apparent outline of the
objects would leave, by means of colour or any other
substance, the traces of its path.
As it is impossible to adopt this process in drawing
from nature—the material on which the outline is then made
being a non-transparent medium, that is, paper,—it is
clear that sketching can be only effected by a distinct
apprehension of the real forms of the objects themselves,
and of those apparent forms under which they are pre-
sented to the eye in their different positions m the
landscape.
Now all these objects have their real outlines com-
posed either of straight lines, or of curved lines, or of
both, which either may be irregular in their relation to
each other, or may follow certain given laws and con-
ditions. If the latter be the case, these laws are, for
the most part, of such a simple character as to admit
of being easily comprehended j and when once the prin-
ciples, which we shall by-and-by enumerate, are mastered
and understood, the student will find, in the repre-
sentation of more complex forms of outline, an increasing
facility, as his judgment becomes more matured, and his
eye more correct.
OF THE HORIZONTAL LINE.
If a spectator were placed in a flat horizontal plain,
the water or ground which he would have in view before