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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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an any other kind of drawing; for.indeed, the colouring of every object in nature consideredwithout any relation to effect, is very nearly the same. \u LESSON XXII. On Portrait and Miniature Painting. Portraits are seldom if ever painted in water co-lours, although I can assign no other reason than cus-tom, which must also be pleaded as an excuse whyartists seldom paint miniatures in oil: many indeed willsay, that oil colours are more durable than water colours,which is however incorrect: a picture painted in oil willchange, and grow more yellow, even within a few years afterit is finished, whilst illuminated manuscripts five hundredyears old are still in existence, in which the colours are with the colours, it renders them darker than they otherwisewould be, By operating like a varnish in making them shine. Ifthe gum-water be wanted to wash over pencil drawing, in orderto prevent the lead from rubbing out, the proportion of gum oughtto be one ounce, or even less, to a quart of water.
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