Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Plates bright and vivid. cover marked. Pages good. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> I assume that the desire to express your- self with pen and pencil is not only urgent but almost undeniable and that you feel you must do something about it. I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability. I feel also that talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficul- ties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm. Let us try to define that quality which makes an artist “tick.” Every bit of work he does starts out with the premise that it has a message a pur- pose a job to do. What is the most direct answer. the simplest interpretation of that message he can make? Stripping a subject to its barest and most efficient essentials is a mental procedure. Every inch of the surface of his work should be considered as to whether it bears important re- lationship to a whole purpose. He sees and his picture tells us the importance of what he sees and how he feels about it. Then within his pic- ture he stresses what is of greatest importance and subordinates what must be there but is of lesser importance. He will place his area of great- est contrast about the head of the most im- portant character. He will search diligently for means to make that character express the emo- tion to facial expression and pose that is to be the all important theme. He will first draw at tention to that character. (MP)