SKETCHES ILLUSTRATIVE OF WIND AND WATER EROSION.
All who will may learn to draw. It is that which we most earnestly desire to do, that is accomplished in every department of effort. All lesser interests will give place to that which we consider of the greatest importance. Therefore if we as teachers recognize the value of the habit of sketching before our classes and greatly desire to be able to draw with ease and rapidity, we will put ourselves into right relationship to the work, and will undoubtedly acquire the desired skill.
We have been observing all our lives; we have made careful observations of many details of form and color, perhaps, and close investigation of structure, but we have not analyzed them into terms of drawing. We have not been looking for the planes of surface, or the relative proportions of parts, or for distance or foreground. Now, however, with the desire to be able to sketch readily, we will observe the object or landscape for that special purpose. One sketch will represent only what has been observed by looking in one direction without turning the head. The most interesting point of the view will be that at which one looks directly, and consequently it will be the most important part of the sketch with every other part subordinated to it.
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In out of door sketching it will be necessary to eliminate much that is seen, only drawing that which is chosen to be the vital or interesting part of the picture, with that which modifies, or is necessary to show it in its completeness. Select your point of view, standing at such a distance that all you care to study may be comprehended in a glance.
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