Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-06-15


and the time will come when from the
carefully traced lines you will be de-
lighted at the appearance of something
which all will recognize as belonging to
your mother, This is proof that you are
progressing in your work. Meantime try
your hand on animals, and indeed on
whatever interests you, studying and
striving to understand the merits of the
illustrations in your schoolbooks and
whatever works You have at home. III
vite the criticisms of your friends and
continually strive to improve.
1t having been demonstrated that You
have within You the making of a drafts
man, you have one fatal error to avoid,
and. failing to do that You are as GER
tain to fail IN your chosen profession IS
darkness Is 10 succeed day / refer 10
the mistake If surprising that You can
become a genuine artist without patient,
prolonged, conscientious mastering OF
the rudiments
Buy an elementary treatise on draw
j ing Study with the utmost pains the
rules and instructions, You Will he Il.
/ tonished to find how much YOU have
i
know. Ionr pictures may possess eeigi-
nality and perhaps be striking in some
respects, and Vet you will be certain tc
+ find that YOU have violated some Of the
+ simplest rules Of perspective or shading,
which. unless corrected, will prevent
/ you from attaining the eminence within
your reach. Make up Your mind that
/ You will master these and guard against
impatience The piano student is con-
tinually wanting TO attempt tunes but
the sensible teacher keeps him at the
exercises until he has mastered all
the technical details and is fully prepar
ed for higher flights of harmony.
The course suggested is the one to fol
low If you are living outside of the
large cities, where provision is made
for the instruction of art students With
this at your command you will not fail
to take the fullest advantage of it.
When your are fairly started, you will
be surprised to find how little you know
and how much remains to learn.
The most difficult and yet the most
essential instruction of all-that OF
drawing from the human figure or from
models-is here taught. Experienced
instructors show you your faults, and
You have only to apply yourself and
take full advantage of your opportuni !
ties in order to attain brilliant success.
But don expect to reach that point in
one or two or three years or ever to at
tain the point that renders further study
unnecessary. Perfection is unattaiuable, t
f,JytJ
to it.
There is danger of parents interfering
at a critical time. Their purpose is COM
mendable, but they commit grave
mistake nevertheless when they do so.
l have known young man after study
ing a couple Of years in the office Of an
artist to show such Improvement that +
his parents really believed him the {
equal of his instructor. They felt it I'M
just that he should continue to give his F
work and time without remuneration. F
and inasmuch as he shared their conf.
denee he set up for himself He wac
soon able to earn $l3 or So Il week and
is still earning it. The advice of his
teacher, that lie should keep studying
and working Tor year or two longer,
was garde3 as the promptings Of self
ishness in order that he might receive +
the benefit If the young man work, +
but the counsel was for the students
good, as he learned when it was too late
to help him.
1t may be that your circumstances are
such that you cannot avail yourself of
the advantages named. You are com
PEELED to remain in the country or small
town for a number Of years, and there
is none among your acquaintance COM ,
petent to give you instruction.
Such being the case, your task may
be little harder, but success is within
your reach if you will resolutely follow
the suggestions already given. \ little
outlay will procure you books of in
struction in drawing, and if you will
begin at the bottom and apply yourself
you will in due time master the ele-
mentary principles and advance stead
lily. Then if you will visit some artist
in the nearest city with specimens of
your work he will give you valuable adj
vice. He may offer you a chance to en-
ter his studio, though you must under
stand that i'll case he does so the obliga-
ton is altogether on your side and you
are fortunate indeed
Successful artists are always on the
lookout for youths of talent. The work
which you submit to them as evidence
of what you can do may be crude and
faulty, but if the idence of ability is
there they will be quick to detect it.
Your drawing in ordinary eyes may
bear no comparison to the painstaking
work of some other boy or girl who has
laboriously copied picture from book
or newspaper, but it is the very key he
wants
If you wish to become successful
artist, then, your course is plain-use
every facility at your command. Prac-
tice makes perfect. If you are without