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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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Long objects may be contrasted by short ones, asin fig. 5, the long line of buildings is opposed by theclump of trees which come against it, whilst the straightline of the top is contrasted in all its length by the irre-gular Hue of the mountain behind. A very low horizontal line increases the height of anyupright object, as in fig. 10, where the figure is renderedof a most gigantic size by representing the horizontalline not much higher than the ankle. Fig. 10.
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f 106 LIGHT AND SHADE. I On the Contrast of Light and Shade. We may divide light and shade, or chiaroscuro, intolight, which springs immediately from the object whichgives the light, as the sun, moon, candle, 8,-c; reflectedlight, which is first received on one object, and thenthrown back on to another; shade, which is caused bythe part of the object which is in shade being in such asituation that it cannot receive the light; and shadow,which is the absence of light (on a part which oughtotherwise to receive the light, by the intervention of anopaque object, as in Fig. 6, where a shadow is thrownon a part of the ground which would be in light likethe rest, were it not for the post, which being opaque,prevents the light from reaching that part of the ground,and thus causes that absence of light which constitutesshadow. Note. Shadows always fall in a direction from theobject which gives light, as the sun, moon, fyc. Reflected light is always thrown in a different direc-tion to the real
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