Ruskin, John: The elements of drawing: in three letters to beginners (London, 1857)

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the elements of drawing. [letter u.

Poems, and to the Liber Studiorum, unless you
have access to some examples of Turner's own work.
No other artist ever yet drew the sky: even Titian's
clouds, and Tintoret's, are conventional. The clouds
in the "Ben Arthur," " Source of Arveron," and
" Calais Pier," are among the best of Turner's
storm studies; and of the upper clouds, the vignettes
to Eogers's Poems furnish as many examples as you
need.

And now, as our first lesson was taken from the
sky, so, for the present, let our last be. I do not
advise you to be in any haste to master the contents
of my next letter. If you have any real talent for
drawing, you will take delight in the discoveries of
natural loveliness, which the studies I have already
proposed will lead you into, among the fields and
hills; and be assured that the more quietly and
single-heartedly you take each step in the art, the
quicker, on the whole, will your progress be. I would
rather, indeed, have discussed the subjects of the
following letter at greater length, and in a separate
work addressed to more advanced students; but as