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Title: Drawing for beginners
Year: 1920 (1920s)

Dorothy Furniss  (1879–1944)
Description	artist
Date of birth/death	1879	1944
Authority file	: Q18784974 VIAF: 92987496 NLA: 35646186 Open Library: OL2371342A

Subjects: Drawing -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Pelham, N. Y. : Bridgman Publishers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pe of his head, with thelong ears closely placed on the very apex, and the beautiful,wide-open eye with its long lashes. The nose, always twitch-ing, is blunt and short and pink, the nostril very small butof a very decided shape, and the muzzle rounded and full.The hind-legs are of an extraordinary size, but gatheredtogether in a hunched position as Bunny sits in a hutchnibbling morsels of food they are not so noticeable ; the spinerises from the head in a long steep curve from the neck to thetop of the thighs. There is nothing more soft and fluffy than the tail of arabbit— Cotton-tail, as he is called in America. So softis it that we must indicate it with the most delicate touches,noticing the way in which the hairs grow from the root of thetail and spread outward and upward like the down of apowder-puff. By drawing our small friends, rabbits, squirrels, frogs,birds, and cats, we shall be aided in attempting, presently,the more ambitious creatures, dogs, cows, bulls, and horses.100
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Our Pets and other Animals Horses are of all animals the most difficult to draw. Totheir exquisite proportions, the wonderful delicacy of theirslender limbs, the spirited grace of their beautiful bodies, wefeel, despairingly, that only a Rosa Bonheur, a Lucy Kemp-Welch, or an A. J. Munnings can do justice. Let us study first the heavier breeds, the big dray-horseswith their kindly frank faces, their great fetlocks, their splendidmassive bodies. These will give fascinating subjects whichneed not overwhelm us. If you have no opportunities of sketching the cart-horse inthe farm-yard, you may possibly make a rapid sketch from awindow, or track your subject down in a side-lane, as I havedone in this drawing. The positions of my two cart-horses are foreshortened.The long bodies are hidden by the hind-legs, and the finishedsketch is nothing more nor less than a square, from the upperpart of which extends the neck and crest of the head. As I have said before, when drawing things foreshortened

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