. Drawing for beginners . ilding, astretch of low-lyingground, hold the bookopen at the full widthof the page. Beginners are proneto dash at a subject,and, finding they havedrawn it on a smallerscale than they intended,add other details untilthe page is filled. But why fill the wholepage ? An artistssketch-book is a bookof scraps. He seldomcarries his sketches upto the margin of hispaper. One page may,and often does, carryan amazing variety ofsubjects. If you decide to do Fig. 64. The Well-head . ^ a small sketch keep to that intention. Should you feel unhappy because a widemargin surro
. Drawing for beginners . ilding, astretch of low-lyingground, hold the bookopen at the full widthof the page. Beginners are proneto dash at a subject,and, finding they havedrawn it on a smallerscale than they intended,add other details untilthe page is filled. But why fill the wholepage ? An artistssketch-book is a bookof scraps. He seldomcarries his sketches upto the margin of hispaper. One page may,and often does, carryan amazing variety ofsubjects. If you decide to do Fig. 64. The Well-head . ^ a small sketch keep to that intention. Should you feel unhappy because a widemargin surrounds your small sketch, frame the sketch witha lightly drawn pencil line. It is astonishing how important are these apparently trivialmatters, how much they influence the sketch for good or ill. We will presume that you have arrived at your destinationand are sitting in a shady place, faced with a bewilderingnumber of beautiful things. After fixing and unfixing yourmind many times you at length decide to draw something146.
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