The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-25
LEARNING TO BE ARTISTS.
A FEW RANOoM SKETCHES TAKEN In
THE ART STUDENTS' LEAGUE.
Something About Models and the Queer
Expressions that Become second Nature
10 Their Faces-The Charm OF Studio
Old Man Business.

Old SIan business.
1t isn't everybody that can join the Art
Students league. You have 10 know some
thing-and a good deal-Of art subjects be-
fore the privilege OF working under these in
structors Is given YOU The league IS an or
shoot from the old Academy of Design. Some
Of the younger and the more advanced art
lists of tho academy broke away from their
old shool and founded this new league. III you
want 10 study under good tutelage, SO as to
make the most of your talent, you join tAe
league. That is, if the league viii have you.
Tho examination once passed you are put
through . regular course OF study, rising
every six months to higher things. And all
the while, If YOU really care Tor your work,
you are having . good time and can wear an
apron n coqucttiSh rs the one III tho picture
above. Not only that, but you can go with
out bangs and wear the Oldest hat in your
collection or do lots OF queer things, and
everybody viii excuse the departure from the
conventional and say how Dccominely orig
lal You are il dress and envy your artistic
taste, wishing they could 90 and do likewise.
So much i you are 4 woman. II You happen
to be Z male student you have tho privilege
of resting, Lemmci in by bevy of nice girls.
&oSoToST or THE MODELS WORK.
The models do not have quite so much fun.
1hClr DlSlllC=5 SfntlcA5 tFaCe ana Is not as
wildly exciting rs one might wish. st times
there is even n touch OF the mouOtouoUs about
it. To stand for ten minutes il an Ajax-de-
fyil.s-th2-I shtains position, then rest for n
moment and tLcn jump back into TIE j iax
attitude j. not a thriiiucly Interesting as IL
sounds One queer feature about nearly al
models who have been in the business . year
or more IS interesting. The expressions Of
their faces become as set Us an cight-day
clock. Take tho interesting young woman
who doc5 the Merry-Little- Nountain-liaid
act for the students. She has sat 50 long for
them and 50 often il Alpine hat, with
expression OF virgin innocence spread over
her couatcnaucc like cold cream on the
ciappol face Of . city belle at night, that III
Off-sluty hours she goes about with hef mouth
half open, as if q genuine Swiss yolcl Was in
the very act OF escaping from the parted lips.
And when Size stops 10 talk for moment she
stands with hor head thrown back and u
startled fear il her big eyes, as il She were =
channels poised on somo juttinG craS
away W tho mountain, listening 10
the hunters horn. 1t is all q trick,
but it j. . trick done 50 often that it soon DC
comes n real part OF the girls personality.
When she gets into q prosaic street car she
does il with an air Of romantic inrOcence and
and haif-frigGtened country coync5S that al
ways secures her seat. no matter how great
the crowd.
There j. the kind Of artist that usually DO
votes his entire attention to painting merry
Gt,lc mountain mails and that sort OF an
tiquc bric-a-bra,c. He doesn't go about with
a siyn on his breast Ike the blind bes-gcr, say
ing, Il am an artist but he might a. wei 30
So for his drc-s tells every one Of the glad It'd
ms his long hair and Van Dyke beard, not
90 suca'; Of his clothes and the portfolio he
,arTies, are 50 loudly artistic that they fairly
,hoUt the 1oyv5 at you. Even the blind beg
gar could tel by the loud tone that the passer-
b. y-l= IN cli-school artist, with Q tingc OF
half romantic, half berry Bohemianisln in
him. One by one this style of artist IS pass
ing from Us and soon the race will be extinct
outside the covers Of the summer novel.
Az ANGEL YsARSING'-oLD MAN.
Here a dear little model Is young, sko
knows it. and VIII probably never recover
from the affection of extreme youth.
When Il darling Little creature of s
years, with hair made OF spring sunshine spun
into threads Of gold, begins to sit for pictures
Of angel chill ,rcn, tie idea that she is young
becouCs q part of her nature. just as L0tta
began playing childrcn's parts on the stage
twenty years ago and has never been able
since quite convince herself that she is out
Of her teens. 50 this little creature will grow
UP to Crc0Iu-othcrhooI in the firm belief that
her hair /; still good match FOR corn sill, and
that If it were not for rheumatism she would
Ike to get down CT tcr knees and build block
houses on the carpet.
Nearly all young artists like 20 have u
model set for thcm. She has been IL the bust
ness for five years and has trained her ewes so
that they can express undying devotion, while
she is calmly thinking out the best kind OF
trimming to Put on her new winter Sacque
She represents 'yearning;7 just what she is
yearuing for no one knows. Everybody that
paints her tries to catch this expression and
every one labels it differently. That rara
avis, an artist with religious turn, will pict-
ire her knccling in virgin white, and
call bis work Faith another win
have the same eyes staring out
across autumn fields and win write Hopeless
Love beneath the picture; third viii have
her looking across = ssill1ss sea, and when
You read the catalogue hi picture VIII bear
the record, He Cou.cth Not, She sail,' and
she of the ycarnin, eyes goes on yearning at
tn, rate Of SD N hour and lea rms the trick
from the artist Of painting her slippers blue
or pink, 70 correspond with her dress when
she GOES 10 TIE Frcnch-bal
The model who does the old man business,
and whose picture we all have so often seen
marked Lar" OF Winter or Grand
father, IS the most natural OF ALL He is old
because lie can't help himself, and the lines
that time and care and worrying over artists
have chisell Is! into his faco arc genuine
enough. - ,-.oist with keen eye caught
him wandering about the streets one night,
ard struck by the wrinkled countenancc tried
him. lie dill so well that he became rcgu-
lar stock artist, and now everybody that
paints knows him as we'll as they know Ivory
Block " Rose Mather.-New York World.