
His complexion had the color and general appearance of drawing-paper, and in his large blue eyes was an eerie hint of sightlessness. The room was always a little untidy the table by the window was littered with tubes and paint-boxes, sketch-books and sheets of drawing-paper Jenny kicked brushes and painting rags under it as she was laying the tea. 29, August, 1873Ī decision must be come to, and that rapidly and there the artist sits, his watch hung up before him, "one eye on the dial and the other on the drawing-paper," knowing that at the appointed hour the work must be ready for the messenger. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 357, October 30, 1886Īt this village the sedater portion of the party were to settle down with books, pencils and drawing-paper until the Alpine visit should have been paid. The illuminating body mentioned is used on parchment and hot-pressed drawing-paper. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Let him adopt one buy him drawing-paper and a tee-square at once, and teach him that the noblest work of creation is (unless it be a bricklayer or builder) an architect. My mother's paint-box was on a shelf in our closet, with three sheets of her drawing-paper still in it. The scenery everywhere is far beyond our sketching capacities, but we find spoiling many sheets of drawing-paper a never-failing amusement and occupation and we can sit out anywhere, as neither snakes nor mosquitoes are known in these altitudes.

There was nothing in it, Mr Cecil said, but drawing-paper and a few coloured pencils.
