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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orcantering across a grassy meadow. You can do much interest-ing work by your remembrance of horses in action. Obviouslyyou cannot draw a horse in action from anything but closeobservation wedded to memory. Study, too, pictures of horses. Look well at photographsin the newspapers, and copy those with the brush, remember-ing always the one great handicap of the camera, that thenear things are distorted and made to appear too large.(This fact you have doubtless proved often for yourself whenphotographed with your feet crossed and pointing at thecamera, giving the astounding impression that you have theproportions of a well-nourished giant.) And behold ! we have travelled all this way with but apassing glimpse at our most favoured pet—the dog ! Thestudy of dogs is a whole world in itself, from the tiny shiver-ing black toy terrier to the magnificent English mastiff. Sketches of dogs are inclined to be scrappy, as indeed areall the sketches of our active little friends. But first we102
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Fis. 42. Dogs 102 Our Pets and other Animals must decide in our minds the chief characteristics of ourmodels. What with the distorted short legs and long body of thedachshund, the length and grace of the deerhound, thestocky sturdy build of the wire-haired terrier, the prodigiousmuscle and width of the bulldogs body, we have amplevariety. We must bear in mind the general build of the dog. Ifnot, we are apt to give the Cairn legs as long as the pug, theschipperke ears as starkly pointed as those of the Alsatianwolfhound. It is easier, of course, to draw the breeds thathave short and silky hair than those that are clothed inlong plumes of fur, for then we can see the shape oftheir limbs, the symmetry of their bodies. A bull-terrier iseasier to draw than a sky-terrier, a greyhound easier thana borzoi. Here we have the head of Benjamin (an old English terrier)with ear cocked and eye alert. Observe first the long barrel shape of the head, then theblunt muzzle and the rounded nostril. Havin

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