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LANDSCAPE.
sketch by making continual comparisons with the parts
already drawn, by which means the power of copying
will be amazingly increased in a very short time, for the
art of imitation is nothing more than a perfect know-
ledge of the relations of one object with another, in
form, colour, light and shade, size, direction, fyc- fyc. fyc.
I have already observed, that I consider learning to
finish in blacklead as a decided waste of time, seeing that
it can so much sooner be learned after the student has ac-
quired a certain degree of facility in colouring, when he
may copy the pencil drawing of the stag, Plate XIV.,
which I have endeavoured to finish as highly as pos-
sible, and to shew to what degree of perfection pencil
drawing can be carried by any 'person who will take the
trouble to learn ; for if the student be determined to
make finished pencil sketches, I would have him do
them well or not at all. And as an encouragement to
beginners, and a proof of the facility with which a person
who can already draw in colours may learn to finish
very highly in pencil, I must state, that it was long after
I had acquired a tolerable capability of painting in
water-colours that I first began to do pencil drawings,
which, in less than a fortnight, I found myself able to
work up to a much higher degree of finish than any I had
ever seen *.
* Let not the student tax me with vanity in mating this asser-
tion, as I consider finished pencil drawing (as far as regards the
execution only, and not with regard to effect or composition) as the
lowest effort of art. A person with the slightest knowledge of
drawing may acquire through patience, and practice, as finished a
LANDSCAPE.
sketch by making continual comparisons with the parts
already drawn, by which means the power of copying
will be amazingly increased in a very short time, for the
art of imitation is nothing more than a perfect know-
ledge of the relations of one object with another, in
form, colour, light and shade, size, direction, fyc- fyc. fyc.
I have already observed, that I consider learning to
finish in blacklead as a decided waste of time, seeing that
it can so much sooner be learned after the student has ac-
quired a certain degree of facility in colouring, when he
may copy the pencil drawing of the stag, Plate XIV.,
which I have endeavoured to finish as highly as pos-
sible, and to shew to what degree of perfection pencil
drawing can be carried by any 'person who will take the
trouble to learn ; for if the student be determined to
make finished pencil sketches, I would have him do
them well or not at all. And as an encouragement to
beginners, and a proof of the facility with which a person
who can already draw in colours may learn to finish
very highly in pencil, I must state, that it was long after
I had acquired a tolerable capability of painting in
water-colours that I first began to do pencil drawings,
which, in less than a fortnight, I found myself able to
work up to a much higher degree of finish than any I had
ever seen *.
* Let not the student tax me with vanity in mating this asser-
tion, as I consider finished pencil drawing (as far as regards the
execution only, and not with regard to effect or composition) as the
lowest effort of art. A person with the slightest knowledge of
drawing may acquire through patience, and practice, as finished a