Smith, Thomas [Hrsg.]: The Art Of Drawing In Its Various Branches: Exemplified In A Course Of Twenty-Eight progressive Lessons, Calculated To Afford Those Who Are Unacquainted With The Art, The Means Of Acquiring A Competent Knowledge Without The Aid Of A Master ; Being The Only Work Of The Kind In Which The Principles Of Effect Are Explained In A Clear, Methodical, And At The Same Time Familiar Style. Illustrated With Coloured Designs And Numerous Wood Engravings (London, 1827)

ON FRUIT AND FLOWER DRAWING.

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grows tired of his subject before it is finished, and should
he not succeed to his liking, he has not to regret the loss
of a great deal of time, seeing that a small drawing
cannot take a great deal of time to finish it.

Never make a tint with two colours if you can make
it with one; never make a tint of three colours which
can be made by two; and never, on any account, mix
four colours together, a.? there is no tint which cannot be
made by three colours. In drawing from nature, choose
the most simple objects, and such as admit of a breadth
of light and shade.

LESSON XVIII.

On Fruit and Flower Drawing.

The beauty of the objects represented, and the ease
with which they are executed, have long rendered this
department of the art the universal favourite of the
ladies, who seem to have taken it entirely to themselves,
there being; but few gentlemen who excel in fruit and

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flower painting. I shall begin my lesson with the an-
nexed group of flowers, consisting of a rose, tulip, con-
volvulus, and hare-bells.

Having first drawn a corect outline, mix up No. 5,
which is what is generally termed neutral tint: with this
all the green leaves and stems of the plants, and the
hare-bells, must be carefully shaded, leaving the white

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