Identifier: drawingforbeginn00furn (find matches)
Title: Drawing for beginners
Year: 1920 (1920s)

Dorothy Furniss  (1879–1944)
Description	artist
Date of birth/death	1879	1944
Authority file	: Q18784974 VIAF: 92987496 NLA: 35646186 Open Library: OL2371342A

Subjects: Drawing -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Pelham, N. Y. : Bridgman Publishers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Drawing for Beginners Therefore it must be crystal-clear that such views offer notest of accurate perspective drawing. Then we have this rule : Parallel lines that do not recede never have the appearance ofmeeting anywhere. Look at the diagram of a village street. The nature of the ground prevents the building of a longstraight street, and the houses are dotted about. Althoughthey present a diminishing effect (they are receding from thevision), yet they diminish to the horizon at four differentpoints. Observe this well; it will demonstrate that: // there are ten retiring lines and all parallel, there will heonly one vanishing point for all; hut if among the ten there arenot two parallel lines, there will he ten vanishing points. Perspective comes to our aid when we are perplexed withcurves of arches, bridges, and doorways—beautiful objectsthat tempt the pencil and deceive the eye. First sketch the arch or window, marking the direction ofthe base, the thickness of the wall; then, if

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