School Drawing; A Real Correlation

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN INDIAN CAMP?INDIVIDUAL WORK Here is an Indian camp such as each pupil in the class delights to make. Begin with the ground, a sheet of nine by twelve drawing paper. The meadow in the distance is blue green, light in value, becoming greener as it approaches the foreground. Light orange or brown may indicate in places the changing color of the grass. The mountains are painted upon a second sheet of paper; they are light blue in color, the one in front, of course, being slightly darker. These are cut out, and a flap is bent back at the bottom for pasting each mountain to the ground. Next a line of trees, a forest in the distance, is painted in deep brown greens, blue greens and browns, adding a few tree trunks as shown. This is now cut out, leaving the usual flap for pasting. When this is placed in position, individual trees of various sizes and kinds may be painted, cut out, and placed in proper position, ?the largest in front. In cutting out the trees, leave flaps at the bottom. The wigwams and canoes form subjects for several lessons; and last, the element of life may be added, Indians, animals, the camp fire, etc. THE SHIPS OF COLUMBUS A very simple composition made on ordinary drawing paper by each member of the class, is here shown. The entire sheet of nine by twelve paper is first covered with a wash of rich blue, a little green showing now and then. It should be placed on smoothly at the back of the paper (the top), and somewhat more roughly in front. Immediately in front, place horizontal strokes of yet darker blue to indicate the under sides of waves, and later, white- caps may be put on with Chinese white or chalk. Note how nearly flat, or horizontal, these touches are? children are apt to draw them as miniature mountains? and how they diminish in size as they rece..