Identifier: artconta16west00onta (find matches)
Title: Art
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Education
Subjects: Drawing
Publisher: Toronto : W. Briggs
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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long way across on their desks with therough right side up. and each, selecting the blue crayon, draws the line which willbest represent the landscape he wishes to depict. Then with the blue crayon heldvery loosely under his hand, he puts a faint blue line across the top edge of theupper space. A faint yellow tone is blended into the blue: next, a faint orangetone is carried down to the blue line, deepening as it reaches it and faintly tingingIwth the yellow and the blue aliove. Lastly, the red crayon is put on in the sameway. faintly tinging the three colours already applied and deepening into a fewirregular lines of crimson at the spot where the sun is supposed to have justdisappeared. Before each colour is applied by the pupils, the teacher shows, on a sheetof paper held against the black-board, how this is done, and also that thecrayon must be held very lightly and carried back and forth in a slanting direc-tion across the paper to get an even tone. As the pupils work, he must go
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ANIMAL STUDY 73 among them, carrying his paper with him to show those who are putting the colouron too heavily how it may liest he managed. Those also who are making evenbands or stripes of colour must he shown how to lay the crayon on so as to get theirridescent effect of one colour showing through another. The sky being completed, tlie distant trees are now put in, starting in thel)lue line and extending a short distance up into the sky. For the line of woods, alight zigzag stroke of hlue, which turns to a violet against the red orange of thesky. is used. If this is too bright, a faint tone of gray may be put over it with theblack crayou. In the bottom of the low mass of woods the blue tone is strengthenedand is then extended Ijelow the trees, to represent the appearance of the snow in thedistance. The blue tone is made gradually fainter as it comes toward the bottomof the paper, disappearing altogether about two thirds of the distance down fromthe trees. Even though in this lesson

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