. Teachers' manual for the Prang course in drawing for graded schools, books 1-6 . -themselves study. Additional out-of-door sketching and home work may beof special advantage here if pupils are interested to the pointof undertaking it. An occasional exhibition of such supple-mentary work, pinned upon the school-room wall (or, if inbooks, leaned against the black-board and resting: in thechalk-trough), may help on enthusiasm in the work. Letcriticisms be frank, but if possible always speak of the goodpoints in a bit of work before mentioning its weaknessesand faults. Sometimes a skilful questi
. Teachers' manual for the Prang course in drawing for graded schools, books 1-6 . -themselves study. Additional out-of-door sketching and home work may beof special advantage here if pupils are interested to the pointof undertaking it. An occasional exhibition of such supple-mentary work, pinned upon the school-room wall (or, if inbooks, leaned against the black-board and resting: in thechalk-trough), may help on enthusiasm in the work. Letcriticisms be frank, but if possible always speak of the goodpoints in a bit of work before mentioning its weaknessesand faults. Sometimes a skilful question or two will lead apupil to make the adverse criticism himself—an added advantage for his mentalgrowth. EXERCISE XX. Representation and Decoration. a Nature Study. Flowers. / Conventionalization. Original exercise may occupy two lesson not more than one third of the space on the drawing-book page (20) for a. I40 TEACHERS MANUAL. [book iv. simple pictorial sketch of some familiar flower. A leafy branch or spray may beused, if desired, instead of a flower. Recall what has been said on pages 64-66 of this manual in regard to convention-alization from nature. Try to have pupils catch the genuine artistic spirit in decora-tion, which is to study natures principles of beauty, and then —without entering intocompetition with nature on her own ground, without attempting to do over again pre-cisely what is done in nature —to work out some beautiful idea or ideal of ones ownaccording to the general principles of nature. The right method of studying nature does not consist in merely gathering her facts andapplying them indiscriminately to any object as decoration, but in the endeavor to understand theprinciples upon which nature works, so that we may use her endless treasures with artistic wis-dom. Moreover, by adopting this mode of studying nature we shall find that all the records ofancient art
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