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Title: Vanishing Point

Author: C.C. Beck

Illustrator: Martinez

Release Date: December 15, 2007 [EBook #23868]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

VANISHING
POINT

BY C. C. BECK

_In perspective, theoretically the vanishing
point is at infinity, and therefore unattainable.
But reality is different; vanishment occurs a lot
sooner than theory suggests ..._

Illustrated by Martinez

That? Oh, that's a perspective machine. Well, not exactly, but that's
what I call it. No, I don't know how it works. Too complicated for me.
Carter could make it go, but after he made it he never used it. Too bad;
he thought he'd make a lot of money with it there for awhile, while he
was working it out. Almost had me convinced, but I told him, "Get it to
working first, Carter, and then show me what you can do with it better
than I can do without it. I'm doing pretty well as is ... pictures
selling good, even if I do make 'em all by guesswork, as you call it."
That's what I told him.

Y'see, Carter was one a them artists that think they can work everything
out by formulas and stuff. Me, I just paint things as I see 'em. Never
worry about perspective and all that kinda mechanical aids. Never even
went to Art School. But I do all right. Carter, now, was a different
sorta artist. Well, he wasn't really an artist--more of a draftsman.

I first got him in to help me with a series of real estate paintings I'd
got an order for. Big aerial views of land developments, and drawings of
buildings, roads and causeways, that kinda stuff. Was a little too much
for me to handle alone, 'cause I never studied that kinda things, ya
know. I thought he'd do the mechanical drawings, which shoulda been
simple