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 another side, from one angle to another angle. Build up the tree, as if it were growing under your pencil, with its roughness, nodules, and irregularities. Do not draw it too smoothly,



like the polished leg of a table, but try to give it a natural sturdy growth.

Trees of a striking peculiarity are easiest to draw, as are people with strongly marked features. Such are Scotch fir-trees



with spiky needles, bony branches, and spiked trunks; thorn-trees, small and twisted with the winds; oak-trees that have braved many a storm, with lopped branches and thin foliage.

You will find it interesting to sketch clumps of trees with the brush, either in black or white or colour&mdash;a few tall elm-trees in a distant meadow, or a fringe of fir-trees against