DOI Heft:
No. 259 (October 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0067
Studio-Talk
scapes have the charm of Nature's self; while his said to indicate that there is no lack of individuality
portraits, penetrative to a degree, with rare facility amongst the younger men, and to suggest that
and accuracy in drawing, are rapid, unmistakable there is ample assurance that the best traditions of
impressions of the sitters. If he has preference the city, as a vigorous, independent centre of art,
for a sketching time it is the late Spring, and for are likely to be well maintained. J. T.
a subject it is an Arran croft, or a shallow stream
flowing lazily over pebbly bed, 'tween thickly
wooded banks, fresh with the early foliage of the "T^ ~T OTTINGHAM.—In the reproduction
year. This he lingers over and repeats, making use I I we give of a pen-and-ink drawing by
of clearest and most inspiring chalks in the tran- ^kl Mr. F. H. Ball, readers of The Studio
scription. In portraiture, the Anderson medium, 1 are enabled to renew acquaintance with
besides inducing a quick direct impression, con- the work of an artist whose drawings and designs
strains to a limit in dimension, ofttimes more frequently appeared in our pages in years gone by
pleasing than the licence claimed by oil; while when he participated in the competitions instituted
such delicacy of touch is possible that the most by us. Mr. Ball's progress in the practice of his
fitful expression of the subject may be captured, special line of work has been steady and con-
and the faintest impression of the artist conveyed. sistent; he has gained more and more assurance
- in the use of his medium, which he employs with
It is not, of course, claimed that all the interest due regard to its proper functions and limitations,
in the younger art of Glasgow centres in the artists while besides being technically sound his work is
mentioned—by no means, for the number might made aesthetically attractive by the play of that
be multiplied many times without exhausting the decorative feeling which invariably asserts itself in
possibilities of the subject. But enough has been the composition of his drawings.
"THE CROFT " (PASTE1.)
62
BY G. G. ANDERSON
scapes have the charm of Nature's self; while his said to indicate that there is no lack of individuality
portraits, penetrative to a degree, with rare facility amongst the younger men, and to suggest that
and accuracy in drawing, are rapid, unmistakable there is ample assurance that the best traditions of
impressions of the sitters. If he has preference the city, as a vigorous, independent centre of art,
for a sketching time it is the late Spring, and for are likely to be well maintained. J. T.
a subject it is an Arran croft, or a shallow stream
flowing lazily over pebbly bed, 'tween thickly
wooded banks, fresh with the early foliage of the "T^ ~T OTTINGHAM.—In the reproduction
year. This he lingers over and repeats, making use I I we give of a pen-and-ink drawing by
of clearest and most inspiring chalks in the tran- ^kl Mr. F. H. Ball, readers of The Studio
scription. In portraiture, the Anderson medium, 1 are enabled to renew acquaintance with
besides inducing a quick direct impression, con- the work of an artist whose drawings and designs
strains to a limit in dimension, ofttimes more frequently appeared in our pages in years gone by
pleasing than the licence claimed by oil; while when he participated in the competitions instituted
such delicacy of touch is possible that the most by us. Mr. Ball's progress in the practice of his
fitful expression of the subject may be captured, special line of work has been steady and con-
and the faintest impression of the artist conveyed. sistent; he has gained more and more assurance
- in the use of his medium, which he employs with
It is not, of course, claimed that all the interest due regard to its proper functions and limitations,
in the younger art of Glasgow centres in the artists while besides being technically sound his work is
mentioned—by no means, for the number might made aesthetically attractive by the play of that
be multiplied many times without exhausting the decorative feeling which invariably asserts itself in
possibilities of the subject. But enough has been the composition of his drawings.
"THE CROFT " (PASTE1.)
62
BY G. G. ANDERSON