THE DIASCOPE: A cheap and easy to make tool to capture the best view of your landscape to draw!

The ' Diascope,'as its name implies, in its simplest form, is merely a piece of cardboard or thin wood, with an aperture cut in it through which to view the best parts of a landscape and conceal the remainder.

It may be of any size and proportion,but a convenient one may be made with a piece of cardboard, say seven inches by five, or larger, with an opening five inches by three. This opening may be divided at the inches by intersecting threads, perpendicularly and horizontally.  

It is a traditionally approved tool for landzcape drawings and when you don't want to use the small digital screen of your mobile or camera and want to draw all with sincerity, it is the best!

When a person goes to Nature, and has an extensive view before him, he is often perplexed to know how much, or what part, of what lies before him, he should take as his sketch. Let him with one eye look at the landscape through the ' Diascope ' when held at from six to ten inches from him, and move it to the right or left,and up or down, till he has found that part of the landscape which will give him the best material.

That's it! Hope it helps :)