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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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ic forms are the bestsubjects for memory drawings for the beginner, because it iseasy to define their position exactly, and because any mistakesare seen the instant the drawing on the Glass is held up beforethe object. The first models should have only two dimensions, and youmay cut them from cardboard as follows: An equilateral tri-angular card, edges 18 long. A square whose sides are 18. Aregular pentagon, and a regular hexagon, sides 10 long. Ifyou have not large cardboard, smaller models will answer, andany objects at hand may be used after you have drawn thesesimple forms. 148. Memory Without Observation.—As the power to drawfrom memory is more valuable than that of drawing from themodel, so the power to draw from memory without any previousobservation of the model in the required position is still moreimportant, and is the foundation for the best success as an il- ..■:■,:■; . ■■■■■ •■ ... * ... 1 1IL*^ ^r^ Fig. 35.—From pencil drawing by Anna M. Hathaway.
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Fig. 36.—Two-hour examinations made after four months study by two of thestudents whose entrance drawings are reproduced in Chapter VI. 78 DRAWING AND PAINTING SELF-TAUGHT lustrator or a painter. After you have gained the power to ob-serve any geometric or other form closely enough to draw theform from memory, you should try to draw the object in someimagined position at a new level or new angle. This may be ata given level or angle determined by a slender stick of the lengthof any edge which is placed at the described level and angle.Observe this stick and draw it from observation, then representthe object extending from this given edge. When the sketch iscomplete, place the object in position with the described edgecoinciding with the stick, and then test the memory sketch onthe Glass. 149. The following problems are suggestions for such memoryexercises, and you should repeat and extend these problemsuntil you can thus draw any object in any described position. In each and every p

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