Talks in My Studio: The Art of Seeing, Facts and Fancies About Art, Pictures; Together With a Plain Guide to Water-Color Painting and Sketching from Nature (Classic Reprint)

Plain Guide to Landscape-P ainting in Water-C olors, With Helpful Hints for Viewing Nature and A rt, which met with a flattering reception, and is exhausted. In the original preface to the Guide the author said: The author of this Guide to a most fascinating art justifies its publication on the modest ground of its simplicity. It is compiled with the endeavor to impart to the amateur the fundamental knowledge which is necessary to enable him to become a master, and to help all lovers of nature to discern her subtlest beauties and her most secret revelations, in order that they may be qualified to estimate the excellencies and faults of landscape pictures. I ts limits and scope preclude the possibility of including instruction in drawing, and its omission must not be held to imply that we do not appreciate the importance of drawing and design. Experience has taught us, however, that the study and practice of color frequently serve to awaken an interest in A rt, which the drier study of drawing would not, and they certainly help a student to select that branch or form of Art for which he is best fitted. Moreover, the charm of color encourages the beginner to more frequent practice of drawing from nature than he would otherwise do, while concurrently with the practice he will use one of the many admirable handbooks on Perspective, to acquaint himself with its rules, and it must be admitted that it is only by practice that the facility of drawing can be acquired.
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