Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . ami most easily, rapidlyand gracefully written. To be legible let their construction, and written with arapid combined fore-arm movement. To begraceful, there must lie an equal mastery ofform and motion, so that the letters appar-ently flow together in perfect harmony ofsize, form, slant, spacing, shade, and allthat goes to give a pleasing and satisfactory Second, How is it to be done ? By care-ful study and practice from good models,either engraved or written. Being now ready to begin our work wedo what all good workmen should do first :consider our
Penman's Art Journal and Teachers' Guide . ami most easily, rapidlyand gracefully written. To be legible let their construction, and written with arapid combined fore-arm movement. To begraceful, there must lie an equal mastery ofform and motion, so that the letters appar-ently flow together in perfect harmony ofsize, form, slant, spacing, shade, and allthat goes to give a pleasing and satisfactory Second, How is it to be done ? By care-ful study and practice from good models,either engraved or written. Being now ready to begin our work wedo what all good workmen should do first :consider our materials and select a pen of medium fineness, paperhaving a smooth, hard finish, and ink asblack asit is possible to get then seat ourselves at a table, with chairso adjusted as to give a free rest to forearmwithout causing it to be raised so highthrow the elbow out from the body. The position at the table should be suchas to give as complete a rest to the fore-armas possible, We believe that the right side. to the desk will generally be the best,though there are good arguments in favorof the front and left sides, each ofwhich we present. The position at thedesk, however, is of less importance thanthat the proper relative position of thearm, pen and paper be maintained; that isto eay, the lower margin of the papershould be at right angles to the arm, thepen so held as to bring its face squarely tothe paper, so that each nib shall be underthe same pressure. If the pen is held toone side, so as tu bring greater pressure uponone nib than the other, there is necessarilya rough, ragged line, while I he pen is con-stantly impeded in its motion by catchingin the paper. We give illustrations, bothof the position of the body at the table andthe pen in the hand. position we nowThree move-less in writing,thefingei GOooOO s Having establishedgive attention tnients are employed t: First of all and mo;movement. By this we understand that theentire motion by wh
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