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Should you wish to sketch a cottage, be careful not to sit too near. If you do, your perspective will be very violent
Fig. 62. When sketching a Cottage do not sit too near
and look exaggerated. Sit half a meadow away rather than at the front gate.
And if the cottage is complicated (that is, filled with detail, the thatch deep and overhanging, the creepers thick and concealing the shape of the wall, and the little lattice-windows nearly hidden from view), draw a portion of the cottage—a
