No. 2 shows the strokes useful in drawing the camp, the wood pile, or the lumber. These have already been given in such sketches as those on plate [15].
The sketch of the house in the original had the dimensions marked upon it, and the pupils were to find the shingles required for the roof, the clapboards for the walls, etc.
Before trying this sketch, study plates [15] and [16] for strokes and details.
Plate 29
PLATE 29
The accompanying plate was taken from a lesson in a first grade. The little boy was dressed in an impromptu costume of cotton batting, and the background hastily sketched by the teacher.
The horizon was drawn as on plate [9]; then a few soft oblique strokes were added to the sky. The shore was drawn with irregular back-and-forth strokes, as in many of the previous sketches, and a sheet was tacked to the board in order to obtain the white foreground.
An almost vertical stroke accented with the end of the chalk was used in drawing the icebergs, and a few strokes of charcoal were added.
The huts were drawn with a curving stroke accented with the upper end of the chalk, and they were finished by applying stroke 2, plate [3], and adding a few details with the point of the chalk.