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part III-.
ON THE METHOD OF WORKING A LANDSCAPE.
ON LANDSCAPE OUTLINE.
The paper having been properly strained upon a
drawing board, and being quite dry, the outline of the
proposed drawing should be carefully made. This is a
preliminary so important and indispensable that we will
dwell somewhat minutely upon it.
However tedious this preparation of the outline may
appear, it eventually saves time; and, leading to ultimate
excellence, it enables the student to complete his picture
with greater facility and power.
An accurate outline saves an infinity of trouble, by
securing the hand against errors in the progress of the
work; it ensures confidence in the use of the brush when
charged; and the most valuable result of the confidence
thus communicated is, that the tints are left clean and
bright.
The outline should be sketched at first slightly, but so
far carefully as to leave no appearance of vagueness or
indecision. The lines may afterwards be strengthened,
where necessary, by a more decisive and vigorous touch;
but if, in the first efforts to copy an object, the propor-
tions be not correct, it is better to rub out the whole,
than to tint upon a multiplicity of lines, which do but
indicate weakness and cause confusion.
Draw, then, with a fine but faithful and firm line, the
remote distance, making the lines stronger in touch as
ON THE METHOD OF WORKING A LANDSCAPE.
ON LANDSCAPE OUTLINE.
The paper having been properly strained upon a
drawing board, and being quite dry, the outline of the
proposed drawing should be carefully made. This is a
preliminary so important and indispensable that we will
dwell somewhat minutely upon it.
However tedious this preparation of the outline may
appear, it eventually saves time; and, leading to ultimate
excellence, it enables the student to complete his picture
with greater facility and power.
An accurate outline saves an infinity of trouble, by
securing the hand against errors in the progress of the
work; it ensures confidence in the use of the brush when
charged; and the most valuable result of the confidence
thus communicated is, that the tints are left clean and
bright.
The outline should be sketched at first slightly, but so
far carefully as to leave no appearance of vagueness or
indecision. The lines may afterwards be strengthened,
where necessary, by a more decisive and vigorous touch;
but if, in the first efforts to copy an object, the propor-
tions be not correct, it is better to rub out the whole,
than to tint upon a multiplicity of lines, which do but
indicate weakness and cause confusion.
Draw, then, with a fine but faithful and firm line, the
remote distance, making the lines stronger in touch as