Studio: international art (39.1907)

picture to improve your composition which was not a series of parallelograms. The " accident " of
actually in the landscape, you will know enough of nature is not expressed by the calculated and
its habits to understand how it would behave when geometrical pattern of texture. We want the
transferred, so that there would be no feeling in nervous touch of the strong hand which will
your picture that it was " put in." After you have reveal the sense of the movement of life itself,
drawn the branches, with a touch that suggests the You will find out for yourself what kind of texture
movement of the outline, you must draw with a shadows require; as a rule, they should follow the
strong, bold line the dark
branches and the trunk.
The line should be strong-
est when drawing the trunk,
and less so when drawing
the more delicate objects.
Then mark the masses of
sunlight and the shape of
the shadows. The texture
of the shadows, the close-
ness of the lines and thick-
ness of them, must be con-
sistent with the strength of
the rest of the drawing.
Avoid cross-hatching, ex-
cept where it is absolutely
necessary, and then don't
do it with a kind of
machine-made texture, such
as squares, right-angles, or pencil drawing : beech trees by Alfred east, a.r.a.

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