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RERAMIC STUDIO 
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BRUSH WORK 
W. P. Jervis and F. H . Rhead 
CONTINUED 
LESSON VII — GIVING HINTS ON DRAWING ANIMALS 
IT will be advisable to use a grey paper for these studies, 
which show the possibilities of depicting animals with a 
few simple strokes. The student will find it invaluable prac- 
tice if he will carefully watch various animals and jot down 
sketches in a similar method to that shown in figures I to 5, 
for as may be readily understood it will impress upon him the 
form of different objects much more efficaciously than any 
other method. Not only that, but the pupil will find that he 
can draw a firmer line and is less fearful of making a bad line, 
for the form is now impressed on his mind in place of the neat 
outline he has been in the habit of considering. The student is 
apt to consider only the lines as he is able to see them, with- 
out a thought of proportion or relationship of one mass of lines 
or shapes to another and the result is usually a weak outline 
from memory, without form, because form has not been con- 
sidered. Now if instead of the pencil the student had used 
the brush he would not only make better forms but better 
outlines. Do not be deterred by a few failures, a little persever- 
ance is all that is necessa^5^ 
The rabbits in No. I can be painted in Vandyke Brown, 
with a touch of white for the tails. Nos. 6 and 7 show two 
different methods of drawing cats. Nos. 8 to ll are ex- 
amples of outline drawn with a brush. All these sttidies may 
be done in natural colors, using a darker color for the outline. 
The panel "The fox and the grapes", is adapted for either 
pyrography or underglaze colors. The skj^ should be 
sponged in yellow with orange cloud. The foreground in 
3''ellow green with grasses in a darker green. For the fox use 
a reddish brown, the trunk of the vine a russet brown, the 
grapes in purple and the leaves in two shades of green. 
PERSIMMONS 
Paul PiUzki 
For the fruit use light violet, Albert yellow, shading 
with carnation and brown green. The leaves, dark green, 
yellow green, brown green, with touches of yellow red and 
dark brown. The background may be treated in the same 
colors. 
