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Title: Teachers' manual for the Prang course in drawing for graded schools, books 1-6
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Clark, John Spencer Prang Company Hicks Mary D Perry, Walter Scott
Subjects: Drawing -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Boston. Prang educ. co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pear more or lessforeshortened. This difference in appearance must be carefully studied and care-fully expressed. Very little attention should be given to the veins of the leaves or tothe notches on the margins. Put the spray or branch at quite a distance from you,so that you can get the effect of it as a whole. You do not see the veins, you do notsee the notches in the margin, but you can see that the light falls upon one side ofthe leaf or stem, and that the side opposite the light is darker than the side towardthe light, and also that some leaves and parts of leaves are nearer than others, andthat the farther ones give the effect of distance; you can see the varying relations ofthe leaves to the whole. These are the things which go to make the beautiful effectof a spray or branch. The side upon which the light falls may be expressed by alighter outline, and the side away from the light by a stronger outline ; the nearer 52 BOOK II.) REPRESEXTA TION.—LKAFY SPRA V, FROM NA TCRE. 53
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54 TEACHERS MANUAL. (book ir. parts may be expressed by a more definite outline, and the farther parts by a morevague outline, and a few parts which appear very prominently may be accentuated byone or two strong touches. These are the things that should be drawn, but beforethey are drawn they must be seen. Try to have the pupils see, not the details, but the greater elements of form, posi-tion and relation that make the beauty of the whole. Let them try to make eachleaf grow from the stalk, each leaf show life in its spreading shape, the stem taper asit gives off leaf after leaf, and the terminal leaves shoot up ready to expand. Thismay seem a great deal to look for with children at this stage, but if you can lead theminto the spirit of the growing branch they will find a way to express it. Have pupils make their first sketch on the practice paper as follows : — Firstblock in the spray, that is, indicate where the stem is to be with light, straight lines,trying to get its general di

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