Studio: international art (14.1898)

Studio-Talk

.least one who makes over ^iooo. I am aware
that the drawing of fashions has little relation to
any art. When an artist begins upon fashions
she must forget all she has learnt in the life
room and proceed upon a convention as naive as
it is absurd. Nevertheless I have thought it
probable that some of the girl students who read
your invaluable magazine—-men are useless—
would be glad to know that a good living can
be made at the business of fashion drawing—a
business not difficult to learn if the aspirant is
content to obey instructions.”

The purchases by the Chantrey Fund Trustees
this year are not in any way sensational. The
works acquired are perfectly sound examples of
modern work, and are mostly by the younger
men, who are steadily advancing towards places
in the front rank. Mr. Yeend King’s Milking
Tbne is an agreeable piece of interpretation of
Nature, pleasant in colour and painted simply
and straightforwardly; Mr. Ralph Peacock’s

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ally with the subject of fashions,
to draw the attention of your
women readers to the present
extraordinary dearth of fashion
artists. Here is a calling which,
far from being overcrowded, is
neglected and almost ignored. Of
the few women who devote them-
selves to it, the mediocre can
always be sure of constant em-
ployment, and the accomplished
can ask their own terms and
refuse work right and left. I give
you my word that at times it is
practically impossible for me to
place commissions satisfactorily,
and that I can never rely upon
getting sketches done to time.
Fashion drawing is well paid. I
pay as much to a fashion artist
for a single figure as to an ordinary
illustrator for a complete illustra-
tion to a story. There are a
number of young women who
make from Ts°o to ^jiooo a
year by drawing fashions, and at

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