Identifier: artcraftsforamat00mill (find matches)
Title: Art crafts for amateurs
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Fred, decorative artist
Subjects: Decorative arts Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York, London, Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ld.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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thing down on paper, so confusing was it to watchthe fish ever on the move. I suppose I started to sketchbefore I had observed anything to record. However, aftera couple of hours, I managed to bring away some usefuldata. Remember that for details or colour you can alwaysgo to stuffed specimens. What you want, therefore, in yoursketches from nature, is to record movement, action andthe light and shade necessary to reveal the main forms, andby thus limiting what you have to do, you simplify yourwork and bring it within reach of human endeavour. Japanese work is so excellent because it springs fromsuch intimate knowledge of the subject and is thus im-pressionistic in the highest sense. Their artists have almostlearned nature by heart, at any rate they can repeat someof her forms from memory, yet in their best) work theirartists constantly refresh their minds by going direct tonature, and those who are familiar with a Japanese artistssketches, direct from the objects delineated, are aware
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No. 146.—A Sparrow Hawk—p. 220 in Camera Craft, byDr. R. W. Shufeldt. 206 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. that the outline can be made to do what we Westernsrequire light and shade to effect. The Japs work alwaysin a full light, which shows the subject as a shape, while we,

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