DOI Heft:
No. 163 (October, 1906)
DOI Artikel:East, Alfred: Pencil-drawing from nature
DOI Artikel:Taylor, J.: Modern decorative art at Glasgow: Some notes on Miss Cranston's Argyle Street tea house
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0051
Modern Decorative Art at Glasgow
the leading characteristics
of the material, and rapidly
select what is essential for
our purpose. Sketching
with the po'nt, like sketch-
ing from nature with colour,
forces one to see quickly
and appreciate at once the
big facts of nature ; it
disciplines the hand to
such an extent that one
learns to love the point
with the same enthusiasm
as the brush. There is a
delight in feeling that the
hand is a willing servant
of the mind, doing its bid-
ding without hesitation,
whether it be in the closest
pencil drawing : whitby by alfred east, a.r. a. analytical study of detail
or in the rapid drawing of
box to paint what must of necessity be unfamiliar, hundreds of miles of cumulus clouds,
but draw it, and in the process of drawing you Alfred East.
will have learnt so much of the peculiarities of the
district that you will be able to paint with greater ]\ fi ODERN DECORATIVE ART
freedom and confidence. As an aid to the painter, I \J 1 AT GLASGOW. SOME NOTES
pencil-drawing is invaluable, and I am sure that / W 1 O N MISS CRANSTON'S
the aitist who does not pay any heed to this means . „ „_ . _ „„
f , . . . . , *' ' ,. . .. , ,. ARGYLE STREET TEA HOUSE,
of obtaining knowledge, and this discipline of his
hand and brain, can never really be of the first BY J. TAYLOR.
order. Nowhere has the modern movement in art been
Go to the National Gallery and see the pencil entered upon more seriously than at Glasgow: the
drawings by Turner : note
how he observes the salient
features of the scene he
draws, sometimes empha-
sising them with a wash of
colour. See the drawings
of Claude, how he has
trained himself in the di-
rection of a high sense of
style; and you will see in
David Cox, Rousseau and
others the value they placed
upon the use of drawing
from nature. The drawings
of Turner, Claude, and other
great landscape painters are
more interesting when you
associate them with the
primal factor which char-
acterises their pictures.
Pencil-drawing teaches us
to see at once what are pencil drawing : ringwc.od
the leading characteristics
of the material, and rapidly
select what is essential for
our purpose. Sketching
with the po'nt, like sketch-
ing from nature with colour,
forces one to see quickly
and appreciate at once the
big facts of nature ; it
disciplines the hand to
such an extent that one
learns to love the point
with the same enthusiasm
as the brush. There is a
delight in feeling that the
hand is a willing servant
of the mind, doing its bid-
ding without hesitation,
whether it be in the closest
pencil drawing : whitby by alfred east, a.r. a. analytical study of detail
or in the rapid drawing of
box to paint what must of necessity be unfamiliar, hundreds of miles of cumulus clouds,
but draw it, and in the process of drawing you Alfred East.
will have learnt so much of the peculiarities of the
district that you will be able to paint with greater ]\ fi ODERN DECORATIVE ART
freedom and confidence. As an aid to the painter, I \J 1 AT GLASGOW. SOME NOTES
pencil-drawing is invaluable, and I am sure that / W 1 O N MISS CRANSTON'S
the aitist who does not pay any heed to this means . „ „_ . _ „„
f , . . . . , *' ' ,. . .. , ,. ARGYLE STREET TEA HOUSE,
of obtaining knowledge, and this discipline of his
hand and brain, can never really be of the first BY J. TAYLOR.
order. Nowhere has the modern movement in art been
Go to the National Gallery and see the pencil entered upon more seriously than at Glasgow: the
drawings by Turner : note
how he observes the salient
features of the scene he
draws, sometimes empha-
sising them with a wash of
colour. See the drawings
of Claude, how he has
trained himself in the di-
rection of a high sense of
style; and you will see in
David Cox, Rousseau and
others the value they placed
upon the use of drawing
from nature. The drawings
of Turner, Claude, and other
great landscape painters are
more interesting when you
associate them with the
primal factor which char-
acterises their pictures.
Pencil-drawing teaches us
to see at once what are pencil drawing : ringwc.od