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DRAWING OF ANIMALS.
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ment in landscape painting. The reason why I advise
this mode of study to the learner is, that most pupils
who begin animal painting are too apt to spend all their
time in finishing and working up the animals, whilst the
background is slighted, and hurried as a thing of no im-
portance whatever, by which means he acquires facility
and skill in painting one part of his picture, whilst the
other part still exhibits the awkward daubings of a mere
beginner; a circumstance which never happens to those
who have commenced with the study of landscape. Let
the student always bear in mind, that no part of a draw-
ing ought to be slighted for the sake of another part, but
that every part, however subservient to the rest, should
be equally well done; not that I mean to say, that a
subdued and obscure part of the picture ought to be
equally finished with the principal object therein, but that
it should be a faithful representation of that which it is
intended for.
Supposing the student has therefore acquired a cer-
tain capability of landscape painting, I shall now pro-
ceed to give a few directions for drawing animals, both
in outline and finished in nencih
X
Although, in the drawing of animals, as in every other
part of the art, Nature is the best model that the stu-
dent can possess, still, in this department the study of her
is attended with more difficulty than in almost any other,
owing to the impossibility of making an animal rest suffi-
ciently tranquil for the length of time which is generally
required by a beginner to complete a correct sketch : for
this reason, he ought always, if possible, to make his
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91
ment in landscape painting. The reason why I advise
this mode of study to the learner is, that most pupils
who begin animal painting are too apt to spend all their
time in finishing and working up the animals, whilst the
background is slighted, and hurried as a thing of no im-
portance whatever, by which means he acquires facility
and skill in painting one part of his picture, whilst the
other part still exhibits the awkward daubings of a mere
beginner; a circumstance which never happens to those
who have commenced with the study of landscape. Let
the student always bear in mind, that no part of a draw-
ing ought to be slighted for the sake of another part, but
that every part, however subservient to the rest, should
be equally well done; not that I mean to say, that a
subdued and obscure part of the picture ought to be
equally finished with the principal object therein, but that
it should be a faithful representation of that which it is
intended for.
Supposing the student has therefore acquired a cer-
tain capability of landscape painting, I shall now pro-
ceed to give a few directions for drawing animals, both
in outline and finished in nencih
X
Although, in the drawing of animals, as in every other
part of the art, Nature is the best model that the stu-
dent can possess, still, in this department the study of her
is attended with more difficulty than in almost any other,
owing to the impossibility of making an animal rest suffi-
ciently tranquil for the length of time which is generally
required by a beginner to complete a correct sketch : for
this reason, he ought always, if possible, to make his
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