Drawing in charcoal and crayon for the use of students and schools

by Frank Fowler

OUTFIT FOR SKETCHING.

Charcoal is used by artists for sketching out of doors in preference to any other material, as by its means such quick results are obtained and large effects produced with comparative ease.

As one never knows how long a tramp will be necessary before the proper subject or view appears, it is well to make every thing as compact as possible.

A small sketching easel which can be reduced to a thin bundle of sticks is considered indispensable by some, but as this is rather awkward to carry, most artists prefer a block.