Three essays : On picturesque beauty; On picturesque travel; and On sketching landscape : with a poem, on landscape paintingTo these are now added two essays, giving an account of the principles and mode in which the author executed his own drawings. . g efFecT: of itis fuch, that I well remember, (if I may beallowed to mention fo trifling a circumftance,)when a boy I ufed to make little drawings, Iwas never pleafed with them till I had giventhem a brownifli tint. And, as I knew noother method, I ufed to hold them over fmoketill they had afTumed fuch a tint as fatisfiedmy eye. For the ufe of t
Three essays : On picturesque beauty; On picturesque travel; and On sketching landscape : with a poem, on landscape paintingTo these are now added two essays, giving an account of the principles and mode in which the author executed his own drawings. . g efFecT: of itis fuch, that I well remember, (if I may beallowed to mention fo trifling a circumftance,)when a boy I ufed to make little drawings, Iwas never pleafed with them till I had giventhem a brownifli tint. And, as I knew noother method, I ufed to hold them over fmoketill they had afTumed fuch a tint as fatisfiedmy eye. For the ufe of thofe who may perhaps likemy mode of drawing, I have feparated a fewparcels, each parcel confifting of three draw-ings, two of which may be called will eafily mew my procefs. The firftdrawing is only in its black-lead ftate, andpoints out merely the compofition. — Thenext drawing goes a flep farther. The diftanceis ftill left in black lead; but the objects onthe foreground are roughly touched with apen. This introduces fome idea of keeping.— The third drawing adds light and friade,and carries the idea as far as my drawingscommonly go. — The compofition of thefethree drawings fhews the great advantage of light ? ; Vv : k V\.
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