The Fésole Club Papers

Twenty-three lessons in sketching for beginners, originally published in the Parents' Review, to guide students of all ages in the art of seeing and then either drawing or painting what they see. The lessons are carefully arranged in four parts - First Studies from Nature, Composition, Landscape Figures, and Portraits - that get progressively more difficult. Each new lesson teaches the reader to see more clearly and gives guidance on how to transfer his vision to paper. Collingwood says, "Art, when rightly directed, is educational, for it trains not only one faculty, but all the faculties together."