Such persons forget that all art ideas and sentiments must be based upon natural objects, and that a person who cannot represent truly what he sees will be entirely unable to express the simplest ideal conceptions so that others may appreciate them. This fact has led some to assert that the study of nature is not essential to the student, and that careful training in the study of the representation of the actual appearance is mechanical and harmful. For this reason the chapter on composition has been given, and no attempt has been made to arrange the book so that teachers may study simply the directions for their special grades.Ī DRAWING is the expression of an idea : art must come from within, and not from without. To secure satisfactory results it is necessary that those giving the most elementary instruction understand the requirements of more advanced work. The methods presented have been tested in elementary and advanced schools, and, if followed, will give ability to draw correctly from nature in an artistic manner. In order that this change may be made, it is not necessary that the teachers become artists, but that they give to the subject the time required to enable them to draw simple subjects correctly. It has been shown that it is easy to start correctly in the lower grades, and not impossible for the pupils of advanced grades to change from mechanical to artistic methods. Many teachers think it impossible to give lessons it drawing without the use of mechanical methods, such as copying and dictating but in some places public school instruction is artistic. There are, however, artistic and inartistic ways of making an outline drawing of a cube, and if such a drawing cannot be artistic, one drawing may be less mechanical than another, and may prepare the pupil to make artistic drawings of subject which are easier to treat in this way than the exact drawing model. There can be but one correct representation of a cube at any given distance level and angle, and an artistic outline drawing of a geometric model is often difficult if not impossible to produce. It must often be incomplete, unsatisfactory, and scientific, if not mechanical. In order that this book may be inexpensive, and may meet the needs of the large number of teachers whose instruction includes outline drawing only, light and shade, which is of interest to many teachers, is made the subject of another bookĪn outline drawing is the most conventional of all pictorial methods of expression. Its object is the presentation of artistic methods of studying free-hand drawing.
THIS book is intended for public school teachers, and for art teachers and students of elementary drawing.
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