A FIELD PATH.
Bitumen process. (Original 7½ x 6½).
[See [p.86.]
The foregoing materials and pens are for the production of simple black line drawings on a white ground, and it is in this direction that I should advise the student to persevere and cultivate himself. All the beauty and expressiveness of lines is only realised after long practice; and, of the many ways of illustrating by line process, it is the best means of self-education, compared with which all others are flippant and inconsequent.
A FIELD PATH.
Swelled gelatine. (Original 7½ x 6½.)
[See [p.86.]
Still, with some truth it has been said that it is only by experiment that we learn to achieve distinction, and so after a while we may indulge in experiments in other directions, and try our hand at the various tricks which the ingenious have placed within our reach. These will be described in Chapter [XI.]