Many of the Mother Goose Melodies provide easy, yet interesting, material for simple illustrations, thus:
MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES SIMPLY ILLUSTRATED
Anniversaries. On holidays, national anniversaries and other seasonable occasions, or rather for some days preceding
them, it is well to direct the pupil's energies toward the symbols and pictures by which these events and persons are commemorated.
New Year's Day suggests Father Time, his scythe and hour glass. The New Year itself, as portrayed by a child, illustrating the new born year with the date thereof made prominent. Good resolutions someone writing in a diary, etc.
February presents Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays as subjects, besides St. Valentine's day. Events in the lives of the two great patriots are good subjects, or simply their portraits surmounted by or surmounting, for instance, a hatchet and a cherry tree trunk, or a rail fence or broken shackles, made into i frame as the case may be.
SEPTEMBER. Draw Autumn flowers, such as the golden-rod, sunflower, and others found in your locality, grasses, grains, bushes and trees.
OCTOBER Draw fruits, Autumn leaves, pumpkins and Jack-o'-lanterns.
NOVEMBER. Draw objects suggested by Thanksgiving The Mayflower. Indians, wigwams, turkeys and corn.
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- Advice To Teachers
- Beginners Instructions
- Blocking In
- Clay Modeling
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- Decorative Ornamental Art
- Drawing From Nature
- Early Exercises
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- Elementary Perspective
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- Foreshortening
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- How To Draw Animals
- How To Draw Cartoons
- How To Draw Charcoal Crayon
- How To Draw Flowers
- How To Draw Women Men Children
- Lettering
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- Outlines For Beginners
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