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try to rub it out, but make it over and over again till you get it right. If you are drawing an orange, make it a little fl~t at the top and the bottom. An egg IS rather long, and thicker at one end than at the other. Apples are all sorts of funny shapes, not any of them quite round, and you can often see the stalks. When you have made a good picture you can put the brown paper away, and choose a white piece. If you are drawing an orange, try to find a piece of coloured chalk THE APPLE IN CHALK exactly the right shade of yellow, and draw with it on the white paper, beginning in exactly the same way as you did before.路 See that you are holding the chalk properly. An apple must have green and red chalk too, if it has a rosy cheek. You cannot draw a white egg with white chalk on white paper, because it w~uld not show; but some eggs Ipok, brown or pink,and you' can draw these .if you can find chalks to match the colour.. If you want to use your paintcbox, remember it must be quite clean before you begin. Take a rather thick brush. Some brushes are good and some are bad. The best brush to use at present is the one having No. 6 on the handle. If it has any loose hairs, or if some of them are longer than others, it is a bad brush, and should not be used; these hairs will make lines where you do not want them. A good brush will have the hairs so arranged that you will be able to draw them all smoothly together to a point after you have dipped it in the water. If your paint-box has hard cakes of paint, you must first put a little water ina clean saucer and rub the hard cake well in it until you have enough colour mixed. If your box has moist colours in pans, you must first dip the brush in water and next in the colour, and you should then put as much colour as you want to use in the tin lid of the box. Tube colours must be used carefully, and the tube should be squeezed very gently at the bottom. Put out only a little colour, and always put on the little cap again when you have squeezed any colour out. For the apple you must mix blue and yellow together. There are different blues
and yellows in your box, and you must try which will make the green most like the colour you want. If the apple has a red cheek choose the proper red, and mix both coloursthe green and the red-ready in separate parts of your paint-box or saucer. The orange must have bright yellow, and if the yellow in your box is too pale, mix a little red with it till it is the right shade. For the pink or brownish egg you must take a little brown or red paint, made pale with water. Never use Chinese white or any white paint when you are painting on white paper. If your paint is too dry it will make your work look smeary, and if there is too much water in it it will run all down the paper. Hold your brush rather low down, and try to paint from one copy. Do not make any lines with your brush, but begin in the same way as you began with your chalk. Paint as smoothly as you can, and do not go over the sa?1e place twice, or go up and down wIth your brush. It is rather difficult at first to paint anything that has two colours, like the rosy apple. I will tell you how to d~ it, and you can try, but do not be surpnsed if it does not look right the first time. Put the green paint all over in the shape of the apple first, and wait a little while. Then take some bright red paint, with only a very little water in it, on the po~nt of a clean brush. Before the green pamt on your apple is quite dry, touch it with the point of this brush in the place where the rosy cheek is. The red paint will run into the green and look very nice, if you have done it carefully. If you have found all these things easy to do, you may try t~ make a dish HOW TOAP~l~lN THE of frmt, or to draw an egg in an egg-cup; but it is much better to do a little at a time and a little every day. It is a very good plan to see if you can remember what you have drawn, and to do it over again without looking at the thing itself. 135