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Title: The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons, calculated to afford those who are unacquainted with the art, the means of acquiring a competent knowledge without the aid of a master : being the only work of the kind in which the principles of effect are explained in a clear, methodical, and at the same time familiar style
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Smith, Thomas, watercolorist Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, publisher Clowes, William, 1779-1847, printer
Subjects: Drawing Watercolor painting Color
Publisher: London : Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row
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s may be addedat the last, when the drawing will be finished. In sketching from nature, many artists make use ofgrey paper, on which, after drawing a correct outline,the shades are laid in with sepia, Indian ink or blackchalk, and the lights with white colour or whitechalk; this method is extremely expeditious, and is tobe preferred to finished blacklead pencil sketching onwhite paper, as the student will always have sufficientquantity of middle tint, which learners seldom obtainwhen sketching on white paper, owing either to theirignorance or indolence. As to the colour of the paper, itis a thing of but little consequence, so long as it be neithertoo dark nor too light; though, for my own use I prefera paper of a sepia colour as in the annexed plate,on which I lay in my shades with sepia, and my lightswith white water-colour, by which it is rendered a nearimitation of a sepia drawing, and at the same time willnot rub out, as is the case when it is finished with blackand white chalk. h
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