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Title: Drawing for beginners
Year: 1920 (1920s)

Dorothy Furniss  (1879–1944)
Description	artist
Date of birth/death	1879	1944
Authority file	: Q18784974 VIAF: 92987496 NLA: 35646186 Open Library: OL2371342A

Subjects: Drawing -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Pelham, N. Y. : Bridgman Publishers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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iny coiled-up claw, the perk of a glossy head, the saucyround eye peering through the leaves, minute but invaluablefragments. We need not go far afield ; the ordinary poultry-yard willafford plenty of interesting study. For choice I should pitch on a young cockerel to sketch.Of all restless creatures I would give him the palm. Butwait until he sinks into a dusty corner and his jewel-goldeye is closed. The shapely body and the wondrous com-plexity of head, beak, comb, and wattles are something atwhich to marvel; it is only by the closest observation, byutilizing the various suggestions we have already made, thatwe shall feel we are ready to cope with the problems theypresent. First sketch your sparrows, robins, owls, swallows, andtiny feathered friends, later try the more difficult subject—and for all these sketches you might well take with you yourbrush and water-colour box. Sketch with your brush,instead of with your pencil, for a bird without colour is moststrange and unnatural.96
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Fig 39. The Frog Drawing for Beginners From birds on the wing we might pass to the reptiles onthe ground, and those homely little gentlemen the toad andfrog are not to be despised. When drawing these small people you must get close totheir level. Try to pose them on a bank or raised surface. There is something so solidly square about the shape of atoad that it is not surprising that it lends its name to manycuriously shaped rocks. The European frog, shown in Fig. 39, of glistening eye andshining back, is more elegant in shape than brother toad;his toes are slimmer, his nose more pointed. Mark the upward tilt of the back, the slant to the top ofthe head and nose, and the long sweeping lines of the curiouslyshaped hind-legs. Note the forward and outward thrust ofthe strong little elbow, and the bandy-legged straddle of thefront limbs. Of all things a frogs mouth is the most curious. Look atthe gape and the length of it, and the muscles which extendfrom beyond the grin to the eye-cavity,

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