Fig. 1. A Page from a Sketch book
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
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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