Drawing For Beginners

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Drawing For Beginners (1920)
by Dorothy Furniss

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566154Drawing For Beginners1920Dorothy Furniss

DRAWING

FOR BEGINNERS

BY

DOROTHY FURNISS

PUBLISHED BY
BRIDGMAN PUBLISHERS
BY SPECIAL
ARRANGEMENT
WITH GEORGE G.
HARRAP & CO. LTD.
LONDON

BRIDGMAN PUBLISHERS

PELHAMNEW YORK

to

MY FATHER

HARRY FURNISS

And all the breeze of Fancy blows, And every dew-drop paints a bow, The wizard lightnings deeply glow,And every thought breaks out a rose. Tennyson

CONTENTS
CHAPTER		PAGE
	Introduction: A Few Technical Hints	13
I.	How to Begin. Simple Subjects for Drawing and Painting	20
II.	Drawing our Toys	28
III.	Drawing Ourselves and Others	36
IV.	Drawing Hands	44
V.	Drawing Feet	52
VI.	Drawing Head, Face, Features, and Hair	60
VII.	Drawing People in Right Proportions	79
VII.	Drawing Inanimate Things	83
IX.	Drawing our Pets and other Animals	88
X.	Colour, and how to Find it	106
XI.	Measuring and Perspective	114
XII.	Sketching Out of Doors	141
XIII.	How to Catch a Likeness	160
XIV.	Action and Composition	171
XV.	Light and Shade	182
XVI.	Correcting our Drawings	193
XVII.	Materials	199
	Index	205

ILLUSTRATIONS IN HALF-TONE AND COLOUR

PAGE

A page from a Sketch-book

Frontispiece

Ivy Leaf and Feather

24

Models illustrating Varied Shapes and Textures

26

Various Toys

32

Toy Horse and Doll

34

Kathleen

38

Jack

40

Left Hand Pointing

44

Left Hand in Various Positions

46

Hand Gloved and Ungloved

48

Hands and Wrists

50

Jack's Foot

54

Margery's Foot

56

Back and Side View of Feet

58

Eyes

64

Noses

68

Mouths

72

Ears

74

Hair

76

Baby's Head

78

Mufti the Cat and Robin the Puma

90

Birds at Rest and in Flight

92

Squirrel and Horses

100

Dogs

102

(a) An Artificial Silk Poppy: how it should and how it should not be painted. (b) Two Colour Schemes and First Impressions of Both

110

The New Wing of the Tate Gallery

136

Sketching Plants. Thumbnail Landscape Sketches

148

Fence overhanging a Rock

150

Tree growing out of a Rock

150

A Silhouette of Trees, Sketches of Ruins

154

A Simple Landscape

156

On the Beach

158

Expression in Portraits

164

Action and Rhythm in Composition

172

The Madonna della Sedia

180

Simple Objects in Artificial Light

184

Simple Objects in Daylight

184

Light and Shade on Coloured Objects

186

Stump-drawing of Old Man's Head

190

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