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Outdoor Sketching
Four Talks Given Before
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Scammon Lectures, 1914
By
F. Hopkinson Smith
With Illustrations by
the Author
New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
Copyright, 1915, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Contents
| Page | |||
| I. | Composition | 3 | |
| II. | Mass | 39 | |
| III. | Water-Colors | 75 | |
| IV. | Charcoal | 119 |
Illustrations
| Part of the Site of the Marshalsea Jail, London | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Under the Willows, Cookham-on-Thames | 84 |
| The George and Vulture Inn, London | 136 |
| Diagram of Charcoal Technic | 142 |
COMPOSITION
My chief reason for confining these four talks to the outdoor sketchis because I have been an outdoor painter since I was sixteen years ofage; have never in my whole life painted what is known as a studiopicture evolved from memory or from my inner consciousness, or fromany one of my outdoor sketches. My pictures are begun and finishedoften at one sitting, never more than three sittings; and a whiteumbrella and a three-legged stool are the sum of my studioappointments.
Another reason is that, outside of this ability to paint rapidlyout-of-doors, I know so little of the many processes attendant uponthe art of the painter that both my advice and my criticism would beworthless to even the youngest[4] of the painters to-day