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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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Fig. 65. Flowering Rushes Drawing for Beginners that is close at hand—a tiny clump of white flowers withfeathery foliage, golden disks, and silvery petals growinghumbly near the shorn stubble of the cornfield. It is a wiseselection. Being of a lowly habit, the flowers will not betossed and stirred by the wind, and so worry you at the veryoutset of your task. Moreover, the flowers have simpleforms. They resemble tiny umbrellas with long handles.Draw first the shape and curve of the slender stem, then thecircular gold centre, then the mass shape of the petals,dividing up each petal later, noting their wayward mannerof growing. After this your eye probably will be attracted by thegorgeous berries of the woody nightshade twisting its jewelsround the ash stump and fence. Draw the post and paling before the entwining tendrils andstalks. Wide-flung circles and rampant growth such asthese lead the eye astray. But if the upright post and thecross-piece are once fixed on paper, then we have t

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