while the left one was resting on a table). There is nothing in this sketch to suggest any of this detail except the position. Now let us dress the figure in a summer dress with a hat suitable for the occasion. A parasol will go nicely in the right hand and fill in the space at the right. There is still more space to fill at the right; a rose bush will go well with the idea of a hot, summer day. The composition needs a lawn for the standing figure and this is taken from still another picture. Let us place a few more roses on the left at the bottom, and a few clouds at the top which help the summer day. Thus we have parts of seven pictures; the lady, the dress, the hat, the parasol, the bushes, the lawn and the clouds.

Study Fig. 2. This little girl was seated in a daisy field with hills in the background. Her hair had a Dutch cut. She was picking a daisy. Suppose we draw her as she sits, give her long hair and another dress and have her fixing a pot of flowers in the house. The window suggests the house part; so we have the child, the hair, the dress, the plant and the window taken from five different pictures.

When submitting sketches, ovals and circles need not be perfect, but when making finished drawings be very accurate. Use a compass for circles and a ruler for squares and oblongs.

Construct an oval within an oblong. A good way to make a perfect oval is to draw diagonal lines from corner to corner and a vertical line and a horizontal line through the middle. Draw one-quarter of the oval in the left-hand top corner. Trace off this quarter of the whole drawing and turn the tracing over, placing it in the right-hand corner, having all lines fit. Trace off, then turn the tracing over andv place it in the right-hand lower corner;

trace to the left lower corner similarly and then redraw carefully.

Fig. 3 was designed in the same way. The little colonial lady had one hand resting on a piano and the other one extended. Why not place her dress in her hands and help the old-fashioned effect by the diamond window in the background?

In Fig. 4 the winter girl is very much blown by the wind. Everything is driven in the same direction, even the snow. A small portion of a figure may extend past the circle, but do not extend it too far. Do not touch the feather with the circle or the figure with the distant hills. If the figure were leaning against an object, she would touch the object. In case of distance the space between lends atmosphere.

The student must not only strive to draw well, but he must strive to sell his work. Remember publishers will not go to you until you have shown yourself worth looking up. Go to them with samples of your work, always taking your best drawings, and taking to each house the class of work that that house uses.

Letters of introduction are excellent things to have, and they might get one a position. But good work is required to keep a position, as it is the work that really counts. Show what you can do and do not get discouraged if you do not make a sale at once. Most houses are courteous and are willing to offer suggestions.

"Free Lancing" is when an artist has his own studio and sells his work to different business houses.

Take your knocks as so much medicine and keep on learning and pushing to the front. There are many positions open for artists and even a subordinate position is a wonderful thing, for it will give experience and may lead to opportunity.

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