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48 ON THE CHOICE OF SUBJECT.
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crosses one of the streams that flow from Snowden. It
is near Bcddgclert, and so picturesque is it from every
point of view that no sketcher goes into the neighbour-
hood in which it is situated, without making a drawing
from it.
ON THE CHOICE OF SUBJECT.
As the strict end of our instructions here is to assist
the sketcher in gaining a facility in simply delineating
real objects and combinations of objects, it is desirable
that it should be understood, that this is only the first
step towards learning to draw from nature. An easy,
rapid, and decided manner of sketching is to be acquired
only by practice. It is an acquisition essential to excellence
in all the other artistic qualities to which it serves as a
basis ; therefore, it would be here altogether out of place
to propose a discussion on colour, manipulation, and all
those questions of feeling and execution, which, brought
forward at so early a period of progress, would only serve
to divert the student from the attainment of the power of
dealing with these effectively hereafter. These subjects
are entered upon in their proper places, in the series to
which this little book belongs.
It is, however, necessary that the sketcher be assisted
in the choice of subject matter. The exercise of a little
judgment in this respect, will render his progress agree-
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crosses one of the streams that flow from Snowden. It
is near Bcddgclert, and so picturesque is it from every
point of view that no sketcher goes into the neighbour-
hood in which it is situated, without making a drawing
from it.
ON THE CHOICE OF SUBJECT.
As the strict end of our instructions here is to assist
the sketcher in gaining a facility in simply delineating
real objects and combinations of objects, it is desirable
that it should be understood, that this is only the first
step towards learning to draw from nature. An easy,
rapid, and decided manner of sketching is to be acquired
only by practice. It is an acquisition essential to excellence
in all the other artistic qualities to which it serves as a
basis ; therefore, it would be here altogether out of place
to propose a discussion on colour, manipulation, and all
those questions of feeling and execution, which, brought
forward at so early a period of progress, would only serve
to divert the student from the attainment of the power of
dealing with these effectively hereafter. These subjects
are entered upon in their proper places, in the series to
which this little book belongs.
It is, however, necessary that the sketcher be assisted
in the choice of subject matter. The exercise of a little
judgment in this respect, will render his progress agree-