The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction . and all was to be done over again 5 and thus the habitwas, from necessity, soon acquired and maintained. Soiled, inky fingers, and blotted copy-books,were seen no more 5 and, what can not be said of all school-boys, we went to our work with cleanhands, at least. Steel-pens were not then in use 5 and he taught us to trim our goose-quill, toregulate its nib to large hand and small, how to prevent its tric
The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction . and all was to be done over again 5 and thus the habitwas, from necessity, soon acquired and maintained. Soiled, inky fingers, and blotted copy-books,were seen no more 5 and, what can not be said of all school-boys, we went to our work with cleanhands, at least. Steel-pens were not then in use 5 and he taught us to trim our goose-quill, toregulate its nib to large hand and small, how to prevent its tricks of spattering and blotting,exactly how far to dip it in the ink, and how carefully to lay it aside, well wiped, for another had no arbitrary method of holding the pen, as if all hands, and the length and action of allfingers, were alike, but simply showed us what we had to do, and left to the natural action of thehand to find its most easy command of the pen. The paper ruled in pencil, we began our first lesson— y yto draw a straight line, with a firm, decided hand : first, the // / /distance between two, then three, and four ruled lines; /....../.. 104 RUDIMENTS OF observing to press the pen at top and bottom, so as to expand the nib, and produce the properdegree of angularity in the terminations ; holding it with even pressure, to maintain an equal widththroughout the line. It was a difficult, and seemed almost a hopeless effort, at first ; but after apage or two, carefully practised, there was not a boy in school who could not do it—and the lines were gradually extended to eight had not reached the end of this lesson, before each oneassumed, unconsciously, an easy manner of holding the pen;for, as the lines were to be continued without stopping, orremoving the pen from the paper, the whole hand and wristwere necessarily brought into action; and a habit, almostuniversal with beginners, of writing by the action of the fingers alone,
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