Studies of trees : lessons in foliage contrasts, oak, ash, beech : with a description of each tree and full instructions for drawing and painting by an experienced teacher
A drawing and painting manual of 1884 published in London by Blackie & Son, written by J. Needham as a teaching guide for students of trees in art. Its plates show single trees in pen-and-ink and colour, including an old elm trunk, a Scotch fir in highland scenery, and broad leafy canopies. A designer could take from them the way bark texture, branch structure and foliage masses are built up with hatching and layered washes.
