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 change it can be proved by referring to your thumbnail sketch.

Sketching on the seashore raises a fresh crop of difficulties and delights.

Boats are not easy things to draw when lying on the



beach. "and that is the reason," Audrey explains, "why I prefer to draw them in the water.

Audrey is wily, but she doesn't altogether avoid her difficulties. If we are spared drawing the curve of the keel seen



when the boat is exposed on the pebbles, there is all the rigging to lead us astray when the boat is in the water.

Moreover, we must know something about the shape that is hidden by the waves. As it is necessary to know the shape of the limbs covered by the clothes, and the branches covered with the leaves, so is it essential that we should know something of the build of the boat.

Should our artistic eye be attracted by the rich tints of