The Forrest City times., 1906-05-18

MuSl city bo4 > anu SiitS Hpeuh tuc summer a home, with only parks or the suburbs available for picturesque material, or a short run in the ad- .jacent= country. and thus it is a matter of nice selection and appreciation viih which We arc to deal. lt may be q consolation to them that it ,s pcs Sible to do more with back yard with much appreciation than with the Rockies or grand canyons without it. So the locality need not concern the pupil so much as his artistic seasi. bilities
 Variety of Treatment.
 Wherever the motif is found. be it in park. country or back yard. by not 10 be exhausted by one presenta- tion. but as q source of inspiration in the inexhaustibility 0: artistic in depreciation The same clump of trees in the yelled morning is not the same under the deep shadows of noon, and ,he quiet Of evening is net the same aS the mysterious mass of shadow at night A gray day docs not present the same color masses as a sunny day. and so on through all the changes that nature puts on to interest with her un.iring variety.
 Not only is there variety in the change of nature but there is the varietF of the point Of view from which she is veiwed. This is the great scale of proportion that is to be tried. and the drawing of the same clump of trees and pond or river or fence with the horizon high or low, the picture upright. square or long and narrow. with all the degrees be. tween. The cutting off of the top line that the foreground may be aug mented, the experimenting with the placement Of the principal group to this or that side. or the center, in fact. every consideration of the chosen motif should be tried, not only for the variety but as the best way to study proportions. 10 exercise fe<- tihty Of invention and to guard ;gainst that tiresome fault-eonyen- tionality.
 Beauty in Haystacks.
 One of the great landscape painters of France painted two haystacks under such different aspects. His ex- hibition Was of great interest from the nature students point of view and from the artists. There was a score or more of canyases from January to December. from dawn to night The haystacks were painted through mist and rain. under frost and sun, some an hour apart in the moment of their presentation and others months. It seemed as though the artist had never wcaried of showing how many phases of beauty his subject could take on, and his exhibition showed that he did not weary the onlooker, for one went over this calendar done in haystacks with untiring delight in the changes and variety.
 If We present a subject as every one else has presented it there is lit tie value in our presentation The story has been told before and We are repeating it. But if We take. no mat ter how commonplace the theme. a subject that has been told again and again. and give it in new light and a new dress We at once claim the at tention. This is the artists claim to recognition. that he shows IS our own world through new eyes
 Treat Subject Thoroughly.
 IL is meant that the student take whatever material he may have and pursue il to that end that he finds interest in the study of proportion. placement. balance and color which must come Il that artistic tempera. menJ is eXistant.
 Let the proportion Of each mass of trees, ground. pond CT whatever eIse composes the picture be weighed aLd tried. Let the ground be as two thirds 10 the sky, as three-nfths. as fourfifths. Let the sky predomlnate Try proportions Of fifth of sky. fifth of dark trees to three. fifths of half-tona ground. Vary the intensity of these with the proDor tions IL will be seen that the pur. pose is not the treating of the sub ject in as many ways as possible for the sake of producing a quantity of pictures. but by seeking to produce the motive in every way in which 1t seems to obey harmonious expression. 10 cultivate the perception for beauty to the point of finding beauty in the most unpromising material.
 To-Day's Illustrations.
 The illustrations show one moiyc treated from different points of viep and under various conditions as Sc forth in this article.