International studio . mlx-rs of them,and afterthey hatl all come back to me again, I took anotion to burn them up, which I have kicked my-self for since, knowing some of them had stuff inthem. However, 1 still retain the iileas, and hav-ing gained power lo express ihem, a thing I alwaysbelieved I should one day achieve, I do not feelthat they are entirely lost. The Munes started two summers ago in Mon-hegan, where I s|)ent several months, Inilh |>aint-ing the sea, and gathering ihe various pieces ofspruce-lree [wrts, and making the first began bv si-i-ing little jHople with que
International studio . mlx-rs of them,and afterthey hatl all come back to me again, I took anotion to burn them up, which I have kicked my-self for since, knowing some of them had stuff inthem. However, 1 still retain the iileas, and hav-ing gained power lo express ihem, a thing I alwaysbelieved I should one day achieve, I do not feelthat they are entirely lost. The Munes started two summers ago in Mon-hegan, where I s|)ent several months, Inilh |>aint-ing the sea, and gathering ihe various pieces ofspruce-lree [wrts, and making the first began bv si-i-ing little jHople with queer tall Fanciful Dnuuings of Frederick J. IVaugh caps and then I made careful drawings of rootsand placed these little people near them, and byand by I began to think it would be a good planto form a story or a series of stories about thesedrawings. I had made about ten of them beforeI left ]Monhegan. When I came back from Mon-hegan with those drawings and some large boxesof Mune parts the follov\ing winter, I made the. Copyright by Charles ScA MUNE BY FREDERICK J. WAUGH pieces of w ood into figures in my Montclair studio,and then made more drawings of them. All thistime Id been despairing of ever being able towrite appropriate stuflf to go with the drawings,until one evening the whole thing dawned uponme and I wrote the first draft of the story whichI afterwards, as you know, corrected and slightlychanged. I am going to model in clay some ofthe characters in the story and use them in sculp- ture form, for I have alw^ays been a sculptor bynature, it being easier to me than painting ordrawing, and I studied modelling under ThomasEakins in the Pennsylvania .\cademy. To sum up all, I now find myself a success-ful sea painter in possession of a new vocation,which is really older than the marine painting,being the thing I was born with. What it willlead to is to be continued in our next. D R. H.\NEY ON INDUSTRL\L .\RT Our industrial art instruction, thecountry over, is shockingly de
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