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Title: Drawing and painting self-taught
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cross, Anson K. (Anson Kent), 1862-1944 Cross, Evelyn F. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Drawing Painting
Publisher: Winthrop, Mass., A. K. Cross
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t (1607-1669). eyes have been trained to draw without measures, 90% of thereplies will improve incorrect drawings. 4. To see truly you must look quickly from the object to the drawing, and transfer the vision back and forth from one to the other as rapidly as possible, trying to forget that one imageis from the drawing and the other from the object. This quickcomparison will suddenly enable you to see appearances on theplane of the drawing, and thus realize your mistakes, and thefolly of depending upon measures that can never equal youreyes. 5. Tests applied before you draw or to aid results on paperare harmful if relied on more than vision, for the proper use oftests is to train you to see mistakes after your eyes have donetheir best without the tests. The beginner who must measurein order to continue drawing is as foolish to spend weeks or VISION TRUER THAN TESTS 3 months on one drawing as the pianist would be who tried tomaster Beethoven without spending any time on finger exercises.
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Fig. 2.—From oil monochrome. 6. Use the Glass properly and it will show you mistakesmore surely in your first lesson than could the best artist. There-fore, in order to improve, there is no need for you to finish yourfirst sketches. Never try to finish any drawing more difficultthan an outline from a copy until you have made so many hun-dred sketches from nature that you begin to see truly. 7. Draw Bulk Instead of Outlines.—The secret of success asdraftsman, sculptor, or painter lies in thinking of and represent-ing from the start the diameter or bulk of an object and each ofits parts. As long as you look at and draw lines, or edges, you 4 DRAWING AND PAINTING SELF-TAUGHT will fail to represent the bulk correctly. You will never drawwell till you stop thinking of lines and edges and continually askyourself as you draw if your sketch is fatter or slimmer than themodel. 8. Fig. 1 reproduced from a sketch by Rembrandt showshow the masters begin to express mass and action by the fewes

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