Identifier: drawingpaintings00cros (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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\ ■■■UK <&*s Fig. 14.—From sketch by Hans Holbein (1460-1524). 26 DRAWING AND PAINTING SELF-TAUGHT told me that he found the Glass so helpful that in addition tothe twenty hours of class-room drawing from the antique donein school each week, he found time for twenty hours of practiceat home on the Glass. This spirit and enthusiasm will bringsuccess to those whose work must be done wholly at home. 43. Sketching on Paper.—We see edges and represent themby lines and so naturally we draw, erase, and correct lines oneat a time, but until the last is drawn we can not see the propor-tions of the drawing. The fatal mistake of elementary instruc-tion is in permitting this false method to continue. Correctbulk and action will never result from the customary study ofdetails at the start. 44. The Masters Methods.—Study the photographs of theold masters sketches, Figs. 1, 12, 13, 14 and 15, and see howthey began with faint suggestions of the masses, and made cor-rections without

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