. Model drawing and shading from casts; a complete guide to the elementary and advanced examinations in these subjects; . requires care. Practice enables one to do it veryquickly, so much so, that I fancy students sometimesthink, when the teacher is showing them how to finish,that his work is quite haphazard, and they wonderhow it is that they cannot get the same effect. The method of shading requires a little years ago, in almost all schools of art in thiscountry, the shading was done with a pointed crayon,and in the manner here indicated—a number of regular LIGHT AND SHADE
. Model drawing and shading from casts; a complete guide to the elementary and advanced examinations in these subjects; . requires care. Practice enables one to do it veryquickly, so much so, that I fancy students sometimesthink, when the teacher is showing them how to finish,that his work is quite haphazard, and they wonderhow it is that they cannot get the same effect. The method of shading requires a little years ago, in almost all schools of art in thiscountry, the shading was done with a pointed crayon,and in the manner here indicated—a number of regular LIGHT AND SHADE. 77 strokes crossing each other in different directions, andthe small spaces between them filled in by little beautiful drawings could be made in this way,but too much time had to be spent upon them, andthere was also the danger of thinking too much of themanner of work, some students even going so far asto pride themselves on making their strokes so regu-larly as to produce geometrical patterns. This, ofcourse, had no compensating advantage in theirfuture studies; in fact, if they were in water-colour,. Fig. 38. facility in this kind of work was rather a drawback,while probably they had not gained so much know-ledge of light and shadow, and of how to express formby its means, as a broader and bolder method wouldhave given them. The pointed crayons are now verylittle used; the chalk is prepared in a fine powder,and applied to the paper with leather or paper of a slightly rough surface, like WhatmansNot surface, is perhaps the best, but several othermakers have produced very good substitutes for filled with all requisites for shading, and havinga washleather palette fitted in the lid, are preparedby most artists colourmen, and are fairly convenient;but the great drawback to most of them is, that when 78 MODEL DKAWING AND SHADING FEOM CASTS. the box is shut, the stumping-chalk is apt to get overthe contents of the box, making everything very d
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