The Wilmingtonian., 1884-09-13

nasts, flags and pennauts blowing i'll
directions, masts disiointed and at
impossible angles with the hull; ropes and
''sheets" ruled with hard rectiincar lines: |
heavy masses of black where soft gray |
should prevail, flags half-an-acre in ex ent
disp layed from boats twenty feet long; port
holes wide enough to admit a horse and
wagon, where the originals are scarce e ght
inches in diameter
1t will not require trained eye to discover
these defects, but numbers of ''pictures"
are displayed on the walls Of exhibition
rooms wherein examples of nearly all the
errors mentioned may be found. For exam
pie the amateurs first attempt to draw a
ship under sail will alm) st invariably show
a broken and distorted line, where the mast
appears here and there between the sails by
which it is hidden. 1t does not seem to
suggest itself to the unskilled draughts-
man that the masts and spars represent a
framework on which the sails are hung, SO
that il he sketches in this Skeleton" or
framework and draws his sails over it all
will come out right.
Another very common trouble which the
amateur experiences in his effort to d aw
ships in motion arises rom a fixed idea in
his mind that the masts, spars and rigging
maintain their relative lines and angles
no matter which way they are viewed. This
is so far from being the case that straight
lines become curves, right angles acute, an
parallel lines converg mt, by the operation
of the laws of perspective. sail whioh is
filed with wind almost to bursting cannot,
in the nature of things, be held in position
by rope maintaining rigid straight line,
| yet this is the way the amateur will seek to
represent it. The peEnaut or vane in licat es
| the direction of the wInd but nothing is
| more common than to see the vtne blowing
| against tine wini, or the SMOKE OF !. steamer
| drifting in an opposite direction to its
i course.
| AS a rale boats and figures on beach
come out much darker than the beach itself
in fact in an engraving they generally appear
black by contrast. But it is important to
remember that there is no such thing as an
opaque black in nature. The freshly -tarred
hull of collier or the grimy smoke-stack OF
a steamer must not be painted black under
any circumstances. "But these are blackr
the reader will saw. Verv true. Init we hav,
to represent things as they appear, not al
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