Text books of art education, v. 2 of 7. Book II, Second Year

COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY THE PRANG EDUCATIONAL COMPANY.

Acknowledgment.

We are indebted to the publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons, for permission to use the verses, "At the Seaside" (page 46), the lines from "Good and Bad Children" (page 13), and the lines from "Singing" (page 36)--all from "A Child's Garden of Verses," by Robert Louis Stevenson; to the Macmillan Company for the lines by Christina Rossetti (page 16); to Houghton, Mifflin and Company for the stanza from Longfellow's "The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz" (page 1).

For the Theory of Color Relations used in these books, special acknowledgment is due to Dr. Denman W. Ross, of Harvard University. The lessons in Design are preparatory to the fuller exposition in the upper books of Dr. Ross's principles of arrangement--Balance, Rhythm and Harmony.

"_I took a piece of plastic clay, And idly fashioned it one day, And as my fingers pressed it, still It moved and yielded to my will. I came again when days were past,-- The bit of clay was hard at last. The form I gave it still it bore, But I could change that form no more._

"_I took a piece of living clay, And gently formed it day by day, And moulded, with my power and art, A young child's soft and yielding heart. I came again, when years were gone,-- It was a man I looked upon. He still that early impress bore, And I could change it nevermore!_"

And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying; "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee."

Come out of doors with paint-box and brush!

Come to a clear little pool in a meadow!

The world is dressed in blue, yellow and green.

The green in the distant trees looks blue-green; but the color of the meadow is yellow-green.

The pool is the color of the sky.

Paint the picture and choose a name for it.

Autumn likes bright red and yellow, with orange, violet, and deep, deep blue.

See how she has dressed our meadow.

Look at the trees and the clear little pool.

What color is the grass? Where is the deep blue?

Where does the violet look more red than blue?

Paint an autumn picture of our meadow.

Name each of these four trees.

Tell how you know them.

Which tree is like a leafy tent or umbrella? Its arms reach far and wide to bend over us.

Which tree looks like a spire? Its arms are raised toward the sky.

Which tree stands with trunk tall and straight from the root to the pointed top?

See "the brave old oak, with broad green crown and fifty arms so strong."

Paint a set of shadow pictures (silhouettes) of the trees you like best.

Study the trunk: its shape; its size; the way it sends out its branches.

Study the branches: their shapes; their length; the way they stretch out, or stretch up, or droop.

Paint the true shape of the whole big tree.

The maple-tree in autumn looks like a great bouquet of reds and yellows in a dark vase.

You can tell it from all others by the shape and the color.

Paint the bright bouquet.

Drop in clear colors to show the shape of the maple-tree.

When the trees are bare of leaves, we see how beautiful the branches are.

No two trees stretch out their arms in just the same way. But the largest boughs always spring from the big round trunk.

See how the smaller boughs spring from larger ones and rock the winter buds in the air.

Paint a tree as it looks in November.

"There's a ship on the sea And it's sailing to-night, sailing to-night,-- And father's aboard, and the moon is all bright. Dear moon, he'll be sailing for many a night-- Sailing from mother and me. O follow the ship with your silvery light, As father sails over the sea."]

Ship, sky and sea in the soft grays of night!

Which is darker, the sky or the sea?