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Edmonstone sitting on another, book in hand; Laura sketching the busy scene, the sun glancing through the chequered shade on her glossy curls; Philip stretched out at full length, hat and neck-tie off, luxuriating in the cool repose after a dusty walk from Broadstone; and a little way off, Amabel and Charlotte pretending to make hay, but really building nests with it, throwing it at each other, and playing as heartily as the heat would allow.
For you may be painting from nature as much without nature actually before you as with; and you may have nature before you all the while you are painting and yet not be painting from her. Sketching from Nature Is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely. Great Art and Sham Art
Now what do you suppose he is doing with needle and thread? Oh, it's that little lacework that Mrs. Sketches! I wonder whom he's sketching. You, Helen? Me? Upside down, of course. No, it's Yes, we may as well go. Come!" And in the same breath Mrs. McLean blows out the candle and precedes them. Mr.
She paints portraits and figure subjects; has a broad, swinging brush and great love of 'tone. Miss Bowen has recently built a studio, in Kensington, after her own design. She is in London from Christmas time to August, when she makes an annual journey for sketching." <b>BOZZINO, CANDIDA LUIGIA.</b> Silver medal at Piacenza. Born at Piacenza, 1853. Pupil of her father.
This head-dress, accompanied by long moustaches and a pointed beard covering only his chin, gave the stranger's face the mediaeval look he probably desired. This travelling artist was sketching in an album placed upon his knees, with a freedom which indicated perfect confidence in his own talents.
The rest of the party scattered. Some went to good points for sketching, some to botanise, and others to ascend the highest of the neighbouring peaks. Mrs Brown and Hobbs were left in charge of the debris of luncheon, to the eating up of which they at once devoted themselves with the utmost avidity as soon as the others were gone. "Humph!" said Mrs Brown.
Hardy, in sketching the character of Alec D'Uberville, explains the eclipse of his faith by saying, "Reason had had nothing to do with his conversion, and the drop of logic that Tess had let fall into the sea of his enthusiasm served to chill its effervescence to stagnation." Others, at the opposite extreme, are merely convinced without being converted.
The revival of etching, which in its liveliest and most spontaneous form is only sketching on copper, the study of sketches by the great masters, the publication of sketches by modern artists of eminence in the artistic magazines, have all led to a far better appreciation of vitality in art, and consequently have tended to raise good sketching both in popular and in professional estimation.
"Several years ago he would sometimes pretend to fish, but I believe it was rather an excuse for lying on the grass and reading 'the cruel book, or perhaps, rather, for sketching. But now he is seldom here till autumn, when it grows too cold for such amusement." Here Sir Thomas's voice was so loudly raised that it stopped the conversation between Kenelm and Mrs. Cameron.
These incursions of the season visitors were so great a grievance at the Homestead that Mrs. Curtis highly approved his forbearance, whilst she was pleased with his tribute to her scenery, which he evidently admired with an artistic eye. Love of sketching had brought him to Avonmouth, and before he took leave, Mrs.
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