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BLACKBOARD
SKETCHING

By
FREDERICK WHITNEY
Director of Art, State Normal School, Salem, Massachusetts

Published by MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
BOSTON    NEW YORK    PHILADELPHIA
ATLANTA    SAN FRANCISCO
1909

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Ability to draw easily and well on the blackboard is a power whichevery teacher of children covets. Such drawing is a language whichnever fails to hold attention and awaken delighted interest.

It has been considered impossible for most of us, because we have neverdone it. It has been strongly recommended, but no one has really shownus how.

A book like this which does show how, step by step, from the firstpractice strokes to completed and effective sketches, will beeverywhere welcome. No one can follow the plain suggestions givenwithout appreciating the possibilities of chalk and charcoal forordinary school-room illustration, and finding in himself a steadydevelopment of power to sketch on the blackboard.

The book is not the product of theories about drawing, but the fruitof long experience of one who has drawn with and for children andstudents and teachers, and has been more successful than any one I knowin inspiring them by that means. I welcome the book and predict forit a potent influence for increasing and improving blackboard drawingthroughout the schools of the land.

Walter Sargent.

North Scituate, Mass.

This collection of blackboard sketches and the accompanying text hasbeen planned at the request of many teachers and pupils who desirelessons and suggestions along this line, but who are unable to securepersonal instruction.

In general, these requests have been for simple sketches dealing withthe various lines of school work, and at the same time for strokes andexplicit directions for using these in the drawings. For these reasonsthere are given upon nearly every plate the strokes of the chalk usefulin producing the desired effect, and upon the opposite page suchdirections as are generally given to the students in the classroom.

A few of the lessons deal with the strokes and their application to thevery simplest objects possible, but even these may be found useful asillustrative material. They are recommended in order that the teachermay become familiar with the medium, and with the simplest and the mostdirect manner of handling it before attempting sketches which require agreat variety of touches. I have tried to have the other sketches coveras great a variety of subjects as possible.

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