Art . st charcoal for school purposes is very inexpensive. It comes in boxesof fifty sticks, which may be broken in two. as from four to six inches is a con-venient for tlie pupils to handle. Charcoal should he lield loosely underthe hand about the middle of the stick or farther back. It should not be sharpenedfor general work. DRAWINO PENC1L>S 21 The regular drawing pencil should he quite soft, not harder than 1> normuch softer than B B. The teacher should test a pencil before recommending itto the pupils. One firm stroke of a pencil that is too hard will not produce amark suff
Art . st charcoal for school purposes is very inexpensive. It comes in boxesof fifty sticks, which may be broken in two. as from four to six inches is a con-venient for tlie pupils to handle. Charcoal should he lield loosely underthe hand about the middle of the stick or farther back. It should not be sharpenedfor general work. DRAWINO PENC1L>S 21 The regular drawing pencil should he quite soft, not harder than 1> normuch softer than B B. The teacher should test a pencil before recommending itto the pupils. One firm stroke of a pencil that is too hard will not produce amark sufficiently dark for accents; while instead of the smooth, gray line that isdesirable in a sketch, too soft a pencil will produce one that is woolly in appearanceand easily blurred. Drawing pencils should be sharpened with a long slant of wood, and not morethan a quarter of an inch of lead need be exposed. The lead should not besharpened, but slightly rounded by rublnng it lightly on a piece of paper. The. IP&JMeBL CASE, side of the point should produce the line in drawing. When the pencil is worndown so that the line becomes too broad, the point of ihe lead should be ilipped will he found that greater freedom of expression is secured in sketching byholding the pencil far from the point and under the hand, so that all the tips ofthe fingers touch it lightly. Care should be taken that a pupil receives the samepencil each time one is used. A pencil case for each row will be found con-venient. These cases may be made of pieces of felt or heavy cloth nine inches by 22 AKT twelve inches in size. Four inches of the length should he turned up, divided intoas many pockets as there are pupils in a row, and stitched on the divisions. If apiece of white tape is basted along the upper edge of the fold before the pockets arestitched up, the compartments may be numbered on it in ink. If there are so few pupils in a row that the pockets prove too wide to holdthe pencil securely, this defe
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