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)

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threads of grass which appear in the dark parts, are
made by indenting the paper, by drawing them in with
an ivory pencil stick, filed to a smooth point like a black-
lead pencil, after which a double B pencil is rubbed over
the place, by which means every part is rendered dark,
except those lines which being lower than the surface
the lead cannot touch.

LESSON XXIV.

On the Colouring of Animals.

Animal painting is a department of the art which
may very soon be acquired by any one already ac-
quainted with historical or landscape painting, though I
think much sooner by him who has acquired some skill
in the latter • this observation I mean however to apply
to animal painting only, and not to the drawing of ani-
mals, which is sooner to be learnt by the historical
draughtsman, seeing that it bears a nearer relation to
that kind of drawing, inasmuch as it is also the repre-
sentation of animated nature.

The subject we shall commence with consists of two
cows, one standing up and the other lying down. The
blue sky must be made with No. 1; the first and second
tints of the cloud of No. 3, softened off as they approach
the horizon, which must be tinted with a very faint wash
of Venetian red, when the sky will be finished. The