The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-01-26


asked him.
III SAT in the house an Of the time.
couldn't DO It. ones IDEAS are shortly
used up. 1 travel third or a half OF
my time can't work steadily more
than two or three months. / must 20
somewhere and see something new Then
when | 500 what want. | think II over.
and kind OF get my idea Of what I am go
ing 70 do. and then the rest of it is
nothing rye made the best things /
ever did i'm two hours.
1T Is ali in feeling IT, IF I feel It, I
can DO IL. II / don't feel II / work
something else till 1 do feel it. You
can't draw what you don't know. After
you see a thing you digest II. think
10 over Get il just right IN your mind.
ana then dash it off. That Is the way
to DO. But the trouble is in getting
10 feel il.
Il am thinking. absorbing when
travel Won know: observing everything.
maxine, sketches. taking notes. But /
don't dntsh ND anything, and / try 10
have q Good time IL rs the way / get
rested when / work l work hard enough
% make up for IT,
Alter we had talked a short time he
remarked to me:
Come ont Of doors. / can't stand IL
I'm here I must get out. / never could
live in town In the world. IL would kill
me- I like 10 20 TO town and enjoy my
SELF but I'm the city 1 couldn't keep
horses couldn't ride couldn't get fresh
air. have 70 get out in the country"
So We walked up and down the piazza,
though # was a pretty chilly December
dav. for the next half hour. while ne
propcunded 70 me his ideas OF art
"People have talked about my using
Nuybridge and photographs. I've said
all want 10 say about that already
but / never saw Muybridge's pictures
though made photographs times enough
myself But I've offered man who
wonders If horses can 90 as I draw them
to bet him s. / can take him out and
show him a horse and he Will see for
himself Why. not one man In ten has
ever carefully observed horse in his
life and vet such as these are most
free TO. pass comment. II they had OBJ
served horses little they would feel
how they go, and II you don't feel H.
you never can draw them, because came
ras don't feel and consequently do not
produce action.
"Do YOU use models much?' / asked.
ono not much. / make my sketches
from life. and when / have arranged my
figures ] have TO have Il model little
for the drapery. ] viii pull a coat back
with a string and a safety pin TO sec how
IL would look blowing i'm the wind. These
wrinkles at the elbow i'm coat are hard
to draw. j have 10 get those things from
model. But for the rest, except In
nudes, ! draw mostly from my sketches.
For nudes you have 10 have models. ~
course. The human form is one OF the
hardest things IN the world to draw
What do you use your man mostly
out here FOR "A model"
Eyes. for little things There used 10
be an old Indian around here who posed
for us. Now there is a man from that
English military tournament who does
it,"
'How do you like to draw best. pen
and ink. wash COLOR"
Il like a wash drawing you can produce
by process easily about as well as any
thing. / was one that got them % take
uD that process work more extensively.
They thought 10 was cheap work but i'm
my line YOU get the best effects ia that
way. 1 guess l haven't done a pen and
ink for two years. don't like that very
we'll in my style Of work YOU don't get
! scope enough with shat. you can't get
effects
when 7 was over in Europe 7 did the
German army and am enthusiastic iu my
admiration for 81. The uniforms of the
Germans are as complicated as the robes
Of the Catholic church. and IL is no end
Of difficulty TO digest them. Half the
German officers DO not know the subject
! had every facility offered me.
'What | want 10 do is soldier men now
I've done the wild parts Of this country
up pretty thoroughly By this time The
West is all played out I'm it's romanti,
aspects. I've been pretty much every
where and done up pretty much every
thing but the East 1 don't know any
thing about New York city.
am going to see something o
New York city this winter
just for my own amusement and edinca
ton. But I hope 10 travel IN variou.
parts OF Europe. looking up the armies
and 10 so 10 Africa and those places.
| don't want any more Of Russia righ
away, but 1 should like 20 see the italian
and Spanish and French soldiers and thr
| Swedish and the others. one has got {,
see something new all the time, you know
20 keep in stock for material. These Eel
lows who stay right in their back yarC
all the time and never see anything can
do much IN an illustrative way If tho'
indulge In living subjects and do not gel
their inspiration from he books. / Do
| so much work because / travel gettine
filled up all the time
You would know that Mr. Remington
! had been "A ranchman and was one stil
at heart simply by his language which
savors very decidedly Of the West, though
at the same time IL has a curious mix
ture OF eastern, even English, making ;
combined dialect which must be peculia
10 Mr.. Remington himself Yet I'm man
ner he is so much the polished gentleman
| that absolutely nothing in his dress oil
department betrays bis rough experience
He loves his subjects. the life he ha
chosen, and IL is more than certain tina
| he VIII never do any other. He ha
| drawn but two women in his life. an
| they could hardly be called successful
! Horses and soldiers are his pets. and IN
| knows their every habit. If there We're q
| be war i'm Europe he would be eagerly
at the front in moment. In that lie
| his success. His observation Of the min
| utest details Is marvellous and his EN-
| phasis on the statement that YOU mus
feel the movements and postures yo
draw simply indicates how perfectly h
Identifies himself with his drawing.
he were a horse or an Indian he woul
know how 10 enjoy life perfectly. an
thus Il is that he gives horses and IN
dians and soldiers the very blood Of III
as they are printed in black and white o
paper.-Adolphus Sherwin Cody. I'm Wash
ington Star
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