Excerpt from The Young Ladies Assistant in Drawing and Painting
When we study a language, we commence with the first and simplest rules of grammar; and so, from the lowest trade to the highest science, there are constituent principles to be understood and acquired before proficiency can be attained. Bat strange as it may seem, it is a fact, that it is generally thought that, to arrive at perfection in painting, you may leap over the elementary rules of drawings and, by the aid of colors, imitate nature and art in their various forms and beauties. Young ladies spend years to acquire their native tongue, in which they are exercised daily; but many are sent to school to learn painting in one quarter, and if it takes a year to acquire drawings the teacher is pronounced inadequate to her responsible situation, or the scholar is considered deficient. This is a very mistaken idea. Painting, like all other arts, is founded on elementary principles; and she who neglects them, or considers the time lost which she spends to acquire them, will fail of success of ever becoming a respectable artist But to shorten the time, and make the different progress easy, children should early be allowed to learn drawing; not as a task imposed on them, but as a compensation at school, after they had cheerfully and studiously finished their more important lessons. This would lay the foundation of perfection in painting, and would stimulate their zeal for their more useful studies; for children are fond of drawing, and would look forward to the hour allotted for this study, as an hour of recreation. - Flowers are the most appropriate subjects for children's Study.
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