. Art crafts for amateurs . has to be notfar wrong, or itwould be mean-ingless. Beforeintroducing ananimal f o r minto a designit is a very ex-cellent plan tomake three orfour sketches,leaving out asmuch as onecan in eachsketch untilyou get downto the elements,or bed owls inMr. Voyseysdesign, No. 149,are elemental,and this sortof abstractingis a good testof ones de-corative instincts., and is far from being the easy business itmay appear to be to a cursory observer. This method ol No. 150.—Pomegranates and Cockatoo. De-signed by Walter Crane. (Messrs. Jeffrey&Co.) ANIMAL FORMS. 211 ma
. Art crafts for amateurs . has to be notfar wrong, or itwould be mean-ingless. Beforeintroducing ananimal f o r minto a designit is a very ex-cellent plan tomake three orfour sketches,leaving out asmuch as onecan in eachsketch untilyou get downto the elements,or bed owls inMr. Voyseysdesign, No. 149,are elemental,and this sortof abstractingis a good testof ones de-corative instincts., and is far from being the easy business itmay appear to be to a cursory observer. This method ol No. 150.—Pomegranates and Cockatoo. De-signed by Walter Crane. (Messrs. Jeffrey&Co.) ANIMAL FORMS. 211 making several sketches of the same subject simplifyingeach one by leaving out what can be spared, is said tobe practised by Mr. Phil May, who can, as we all know,suggest with a few strokes what most of us require aninfinite number to effect. This same faculty of selectingwhat is necessary and rejecting what can be dispensedwith, is what a decorative artist should develope, and tothis can be added the faculty of making
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