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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y are a rich harvest for thepencil and the brush. Who, for instance, could be more attractive than the perkylittle robin with his brown coat and scarlet waistcoat, hissleek, neat plumage, the cock of his bright eye, and the flickof his pointed tail ? A most characteristic little gentleman !Search your memory, and try to sketch him out of your head,and preferably with your brush. Make a bold dash at catching his likeness. Mark the longslope of his back, the clean, sharp swelling curve from thebill downward, the intersecting lines of the tail and wing, theshort bill curved above, flattened beneath, the eye close tothe bill, the slender strength of the tiny legs, the perfectbalance on the long talons. By contrast, too, we learn much, and drive observationdeeper. Compare the singing canary, his slim golden body anddainty limbs, with the raucous-tongued parrot, his powerfulbeak, thick talons, and muscular thighs. Contrast the sky-lark, the exquisite lightness and buoyancy of his movement92
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Fig. 38. Birds at Rest and in Flight 92 Our Pets and other Animals and form, with that clumsy, soft, noiseless bird of the night—the owl. An owl is a good introduction to the study ofbirds ; he has one invaluable asset—tracked to his lair byday, he can be observed quite closely. His is a simple andcomparatively easy-to-observe shape, as he sits huddled onhis perch, blinking his eyes, a quaint compact oblong form,from which depends a soft blunted tail; with shouldershumped up to his neck, head large and square, and talons welltucked under the soft breast feathers. Mark the large hood-like shape of the head, the curiousmask effect of the face from which the tiny beak emerges, andthe eyes, large, round, and heavily lidded, and encircled byrays of softest feathers. Mark the rich dark shadows of theeye, beak, and talon with a firm touch. Because—and thisis an important fact when we are drawing birds—it is byinsistence upon such shadows, the soft depth of the eye, andthe strong curv

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