. Art crafts for amateurs . equilibrium is thuspreserved when many influences are pulling at one. Studywhat you most affect is well-worn but very excellent advice,for there are always those who wish to force upon one setsof principles, and who at once enunciate canons which theywould have us receive as infallible dogmas just becausethey have a penchant for certain old work. Think of thebooks that in ones youth came to one with an over-whelming recommendation which our own feelings did notendorse, so that much of ones time was spent in trying tolike that which ones ego rebelled at. My own exper
. Art crafts for amateurs . equilibrium is thuspreserved when many influences are pulling at one. Studywhat you most affect is well-worn but very excellent advice,for there are always those who wish to force upon one setsof principles, and who at once enunciate canons which theywould have us receive as infallible dogmas just becausethey have a penchant for certain old work. Think of thebooks that in ones youth came to one with an over-whelming recommendation which our own feelings did notendorse, so that much of ones time was spent in trying tolike that which ones ego rebelled at. My own experienceis that it is only after years of study one learns to see thetranscendent qualities in the very work one is expected tovenerate at the outset of ones career: those classicalexamples which it was more the custom in the past than itis now to force upon the tyros attention. Were I to be A METHOD OF STUDY. T3 planning out the training of a student in the crafts I shoulddevote much more time to work direct from nature than. No. 6.—Carved Wood Class ; designed by Joseph Phillips. seeing nature through the eyes of other folk, which is what r4 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. we do when we accept others rendering of what is for the amateur who follows a craft as a pleasantrecreation, a hobby in which he can forget some of themiseries and disappointments of life, man being a tool-usinganimal who should rejoice in his labour, that being hisportion, he should certainly be influenced from withinrather than from without, and do that which he feels ratherthan what someone else tells him he should feel. Whileany work is in progress try and visit a museum where goodexamples in that particular craft are to be seen. It iswonderful how helpful a museum is when one visits it for adefinite purpose ; so different to the feeling one experienceswhen one walks around with no motive to direct ones gazeto anything in particular. In the following pages we will give some individualatt
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