A Course of Water-Colour Painting: With Twenty-Four Coloured Plates (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Leitch, Richard Pettigrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282968342 ISBN 13: 9780282968342

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from A Course of Water-Colour Painting: With Twenty-Four Coloured Plates

Sketching blocks are very convenient. They consist of a number of pieces of paper fastened together by their edges, and the whole mass attached to a piece of thick millboard, thus supplying the place of several sheets of drawing paper, ready stretched as on a drawing board. As. Each drawing is finished, it is removed by running the penknife round the edges, when another sheet ready for work is presented.

Before giving any instructions as to the uses of colours, it is necessary to impress on the student that no amount of shading or colouring, however well done, will improve a bad drawing, whilst a good outline will often clearly represent the object without either shading or colour. The learner is therefore urged not to begin to colour until he has carefully examined and corrected the sketch.

When about commencing to work in colour, see, in the first place, that the slab is perfectly free from dust. Drop some water on it from one of the larger brushes, but do not, on any account, dip the cake of colour into the water, for'by that means the edges become softened, and crumble off in rubbing. Rub the cake of colour firmly, but not too heavily, or you will not get your colour smooth. Be careful to hold the colour upright, so as to keep its edges flat. When you have rubbed as much colour as you think will be wanted, do not at once put the cake back into the box, but place it on one of its edges to dry. Moist colours are sold either in. Metal tubes, in china pans, or are placed in compartments in japanned tin boxes. Each of these methods has its own special advantages, which the tastes or necessities of each student will soon discover. If the moist colours in compartments or pans are used, you must be careful, before closing your lesson, to wash off the surface of any colour you may have soiled, so that next time you dip in itthe colour may be pure.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0282968342
• ISBN 13: 9780282968342
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 92
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