Art . t erasures have been necessary, thelandscape and letters should be redrawn or traced upon a fresh sheet of drawingpaper. When the whole sheet is ready in pencil outline, the colour should be put onin flat washes, care being taken that each space is dry l^efore a wash is applied to aspace that touches it. When the paper is quite dry, the outlines should he gone over with India ink,l)lack water-colour, pencil, or any very dark colour that harmonizes with the coloursused. It will be found that the simpler the drawings are kept, the greater will be thesuccess obtained. Many beautiful example
Art . t erasures have been necessary, thelandscape and letters should be redrawn or traced upon a fresh sheet of drawingpaper. When the whole sheet is ready in pencil outline, the colour should be put onin flat washes, care being taken that each space is dry l^efore a wash is applied to aspace that touches it. When the paper is quite dry, the outlines should he gone over with India ink,l)lack water-colour, pencil, or any very dark colour that harmonizes with the coloursused. It will be found that the simpler the drawings are kept, the greater will be thesuccess obtained. Many beautiful examples of this type of illustration are to befound in magazines. DRILL TX DRAWIXG BRUSH LINES To make brush lines such as were required in the al)ove lesson on IllustrativeDrawing, a class should have frequent practice in freearm line drawing. For thispurpose, the brush should be held between the thumb and forefinger, with themiddle finsfor resfins: aii^ainst the side of the handle lower down than the fore-. WILLOW CATKINS IN COLOUR lg§ finger, so as to keep the brush steady in anabsolutely vertical position; the little fingermay rest lightly on the paper, but the wristand arm should be quite free from the a light line the point of the brush barelycomes in contact with the paper, and the widthof the line is governed by the way in which thepoint of the brush just touches the paper or ispushed down against it. The hand is movedslowly and steadily across the paper from left ,.,, J. v. POSITION OF MAKO FOR DRAWIN6 BRUSH LINES to right, or from top to bottom, or m whatever direction the lines are to be drawn. The hand should be kept perfectly steady, allmovement being from the shoulder. The control of the medium gained by thesedrills is very noticeable. WILLOW CATKINS, OR PUSSY WILLOWS , IN WATER-COLOURS PREPARATION A collection of well-budded willow sprays should be made the day before theyare needed for the lesson and placed in water over night. From this material thete
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