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The manual offers step-by-step instruction for making effective blackboard sketches using chalk and charcoal, beginning with basic strokes and progressing to complete classroom illustrations. Plates show stroke techniques and examples — simple shapes, objects, landscapes, seasonal and subject-based drawings — with explicit directions for pressure, angle, and chalk handling. Lessons explain how to adapt sketches for reading, arithmetic, geography, history, nature study, calendars, and holidays, and encourage teachers to practice strokes, vary touches, and adapt examples rather than copy them. Emphasis is placed on using sketching as a visual teaching aid to hold attention, clarify lessons, and lead children to use drawing as spontaneous expression.

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Title: Blackboard Sketching

Author: Frederick Whitney

Author of introduction, etc.: Walter Sargent

Release date: February 25, 2022 [eBook #67494]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Milton Bradley Company, 1908

Credits: Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLACKBOARD SKETCHING ***

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