SKETCH CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 138, 13 June 1934, Page 12

SKETCH CLUB.

INSTRUCTIVE TALKS. At a meeting of the Auckland Society of Arts Sketch Club held last evening, a wide variety of sketches was submitted to Mrs. Alice F. Whyte for criticism. Mrs. Whyte emphasised the need for simplicity in subject matter, and also stressed the need for form obtained through third dimensional treatment of subjects. There were a number of portrait sketches among the drawings submitted, and Mrs. Whyte emphasised the importance of form and modelling in such work. Mr. Laird Thomson, secretary of the club, dealt with the question of subject matter in one of a series of ten-minute readings, and gave a/reading from a wellknown writer's work on theme in painting. An address on "Drawing With the Pen" was given by Mr. E. Wadham. chairman of the club, who said that artists who had oontributed to the development of pen drawing realised the peculiar qualities of the art, and that it demanded quite different treatment from any other. Some of the most perfect draughtsmanship was to be found in pen drawings which had been published as illustrations, the decorative quality being well marked, and the tone values brought out with feeling and colour—a quality rarely met with in oil paintings. Mr. Wadham also mentioned the fact that the pen lent itself to the drawing of the figure, being flexible and capable of great directness and decision in the hands of a good artist.