HOW TO COPY GOOD EXAMPLES
The work in Representation should not be confined to drawing from models and objects only; there should be good and careful study through copying good examples. The copying should .not be superficial and imitative, but should be rather an endeavor to enter into and repres'ent the feeling of the one who drew the example. True copying is endeavoring to see and to draw what the eyes of another and a greater has seen and represented ; drawing from models and objects is seeing through one's own eyes. To the advantage of personal experience in any study there should always be added the advantage of the richness of others' experience. The work in Representation should he presented by the teacher in this spirit, developing in the pupils, not merely reliance in their own ability to see and to draw, but also an appreciation and admiration for what has been clone by' others, with a desire to attain through earnest study to real art expression.
Remember that a drawing may be absolutely correct as far as giving the principles governing the appearance of an object or group or scene is concerned, and yet wholly without what is known in art as expression. Lead your pupils through the study and sympathetic drawing of good examples, through a store of associations in literature and in life, through a spirit of recognition and appreciation, to a conscious feeling for the beautiful, and a desire for its expression in drawing.