The following notes were written by Bertha Corson Day during Howard Pyle’s sixth lecture on illustration at the Drexel Institute, November 10, 1894:
Finish your work - but do not labor it
Begin finishing on the eyes of the principal figure
Study proportion*
Avoid giving a brand new look to things
In sunlight exaggerate the simplicity of effects
Avoid copying the strained expression of the face of the model
Strength is not produced by strong contrasts
[* Pyle specifically recommended the textbooks of Bertram Windle - no doubt his The Proportions of the Human Body (1892) - and another writer, whose name I have yet to decipher.]
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Everything Pyle says about art is gold. I can never get enough of his instruction.
Thanks, Ian!
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