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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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urniture, a portion of a room, house,or a street, you are faced with greater difficulties. How are things in a drawing made to go back ? is aquestion that requires a little more elucidation. Probably as a small child you began to appreciate that asobjects retire or recede, so must they become apparentlysmaller—a first rule of perspective. Did you not sometimes play at the game of hiding fromyour sight a house or a tree by putting your fmger, or even asingle hair, close to your eye ? You must have noticed that the boat becomes smaller andsmaller as it nears the horizon; that a man climbing a distanthill or mountain is reduced eventually to a mere speck ; thata huge aeroplane looks no larger than a tiny fly among theclouds ? Therefore you have fully convinced yourself that objectsmust become smaller as they recede. In other words, as objects retire, or are farther from the eye,they occupy less space upon the field of vision. The objects in the nearest part of your picture—that is118
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Fig. 46. Objects become Smaller as they Recede Drawing for Beginners to say, in the foreground—are largest; the things in themiddle, or middle distance, are smaller; and the thingsin the far distance, or background, are smallest. And toexplain these apparently simple facts we must exercise ourwits. You know that when you stand on the seashore and lookseaward the extent of your vision is bounded by the meetingof the sea and sky, which boundary is called the horizon.The horizon is the line that follows the line of your eyes, theboundary line. The word is derived from the Greek horos,a limit or boundary. When you stand on the beach and look at the sea yourposition is low, and your horizon is low, because it is on a levelwith your eyes. But climb the cliffs and turn seaward; the horizon is thelevel of your eyes. Ascend to the very top of the cliffs. Now you are highindeed. Look again toward the horizon ; it has extended;again it is the height of your eyes. The line of the horizon is not

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