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by laborious stippling. Where nature shows effects as if done with the brush and paint, that same effect is preferable to "methods".
The teaching that the stroke should follow the form is in painting less important than in drawing and if not pictorial, useless. Nor is that at all an undisputable way, since each plane extends in two directions of opposite nature, the plane or color figure on the canvas may be built up of strokes in one or the other direction. Usually the decision lies with the structure or texture of the form

[[Images: Diagrams all along left side of page of a tree trunk and branch labeled a. good and b. bad; diagram of eleven brush strokes for a. and one single stroke for b. Drawings labeled a tree trunk, an arm. Drawing in middle of page of a sun and two roofs.]]


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