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 676 THE ARTS This section of Every Woman's Encyclopaedia tells what woman has done in the arts ; how she may study them, and how she may attain success in them. Authoritative writers will contribute articles on : Art Music Literature Ari Edtication in England Musical Education Famous Books by Women Art Education Abroad Studying Abroad Famous Poems by IVome/i Scholarships. Exhibitions Musical Scholarships Tales from the Classics Modern Illustration P?'actical Notes on the Choice Stories of Famous Women The Amateur Artist of Instruments Writers Decorative Art The Musical Education o/ The Lives of Women Poets, Applied Arts, etc. Children, etc. etc., etc. THE ART ©F DRAW^IMG AMD FAIHTIMG By A. S. HARTRICK, A.R.W.S., Visiting Teacher L.C.C. School of Art, Cambervvell Contiinied /ro»t page 433, Part 3 II. GOOD DRAWING MEANS CLEAR THINKING The Importance of Thinking as Applied to Drawing — Why Japanese Soldiers easily Learn to Handle complicated Mechanism — The **A11 Drawing is an Egg'' Theory The student should first of all learn to control line, and not let the line control him. To do this he must study to see clearly what he wants to do, then to set it down accurately and with precision. In nature, of course, there is no actual line, merely one space or mass brought up against another, and thus relieved by colour or tone ; usually either dark against light, or vice versa. This enclosing of spaces with a line in imitation of Tn this paper I will endeavour to show the importance of deliberate thinking as ap- plied to draw- ing ; and the educational value, apart from art, aris- ing from it. More par- ticularly I will deal with thinking as applied to outline — i.e., the finding and establish- ing of the form of boundaries of spaces or masses with a line. In this respect anyone who really wishes own severest Sketching with the help of light guiding lines to learn to draw must be his critic. Very often among would-be votaries of art we hear a lot of loose talk about their feehngs, and many try to make this an ex- cuse for woolgathering and fumbled handhng. The expression of emotion in drawing is the hallmark of an artist, but the power to ex- press it, presupposing natural ability, only comes after much experience and practice. some natural form is one oftheearliest instincts of a child, and probably was one of the first means of de- veloping the power of ob- s e r vation and reason- ing in primi- tive man. Possibly at fi r s t the object was merely to recall the ap- pearance of SOmethinST "'"^^ "^^ ^^ ovals to build up the outline ^^„^ / n of the figure, a method apt to produce a seen (usually bumpy effect