MOTHER BUNCH'S ART CORNER

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21808, 13 June 1936, Page 7 (Supplement)

MOTHER BUNCH'S ART CORNER

walls of the hall, using burnt sticks instead of pencils. At first the others could all draw better than Joshua. They had to hold his fist and show

Special for Artists At the end of the year the highest award possible on board “The Press Ship” will be given to one A.B.H. member, deserviqgt the honour. This is the lit* “Press Ship” gold badge. The badge is in the shape of a tiny golden ship, sails and all complete. It has the words “Press Ship” engraved on the front, and at the back is the name of the winner, and the date. The badge will be given to the member sending in what is considered the highest average of art work during the year, paintings, drawings, and general contributions.

“They made sketches on the walls”

him where to make the lines. Soon, however, the boy learned how to do it and grew to like drawing better than anything else. As Joshua grew older, he teased his father to let him be an artist instead of a doctor as his parent wished him to be. One day in church, he grew tired of listening to the sermon and drew a picture of the minister on his thumb naiL As soon as church was over, he ran down to the boat house and

Sir Joshua Reynolds! Who was he? Dear, dear, you should know that. Why, Sir Joshua Reynolds, above all, was the painter who loved to make pictures of children. Some of these pictures,, such as “The Age of Innocence,” and “The

Sir Joshua Reynolds, himself Strawberry Girl” are among the world’s best-known masterpieces. Sir Joshua Reynolds—now we know just where we are, don’t we? —was born in England in 1723. Joshua had five brothers and sisters and the family was poor. His father, who was master of a grammar school, could not afford to buy pencils and paper for so many children. When the brothers and sisters wanted to draw, they made sketches on the white-washed

“The Strawberry Girl”; Above, picture of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s young niece, Theophila Palmer—Offie for short—who came to live with him when her father died

tain star, twinkling away merrily in tii6 sky It wasn’t then that I understood what he meant. It was only after I had learned something of the language of that planet that I really understood just what I had seen that first night. Those strange people had seen and examined our rocket; they knew from where we had come. For hundreds of years they had been sending messages to our world, and now we had arrived. That little star twinkling away so cheerily—“ Twinkle, twinkle, little star.” I found myself saying stupidly—was our own earth. DID THEY EVER GO BACK? , WAIT FOR THE NEWT

<‘3? e £ ge S* Innocei ice”: Below, The Strawberry Girl’s” little eirl She is Theophila Gwatkin. She, too, loved to romp with Sir Joshua Reynolds, just as her mother had done when she was a little girl, and 1 wavt y t^it h i> tbe J oys which he always kept for his young visitors

_Why is the letter g the most noisy of letters? Because it begins all clamour. What is the worst weather for rats and mice?

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Friend of Children

painted a large portrait from the thumb-nail sketch, using an old sail and ordinary house paints. Everyone who saw Joshua’s first portrait thought it was beautiful. The boy was 12 years old at the time. At last Joshua’s father agreed to let the boy study to be an artist instead of a doctor. When Joshua was 17, he was sent to London to be the apprentice of Thomas Hudson, the best portrait painter of the day. There he spent two years, receiving the only art instruction that he was ever to have. Later he managed to go to Italy, where fo*

“A large portrait from the thumb* nail sketch”

three years he copied the paintings of the old masters in museums At the end of that time he returned to London and soon people began to flock to his studio to have their portraits painted, for he was recognised to be a master. Mothers brought their children to him; no other artist could catch the spirit of a child and paint it as Joshua Reynolds could. All his life Joshua Reynolds worked hard. Altogether, he is said to have painted about 4000 pictures. He was greatly honoured during his lifetime and was made a knight by King George m.

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