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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19950#0005
PREFACE.
The following pages are intended for the use of such
Students as are accustomed to copy Water-colour drawings,
and find no difficulty in sketching natural objects in Black-
and-white ; yet who feel, when trying to represent Nature in
her proper colours, that they require something more to
guide them than their own perception, which is probably
not sufficiently developed to enable them to seize the
effects that Nature presents, and they are consequently
disappointed at finding their productions devoid of that
brilliancy which' they have been able to attain in their
copies of pictures.
The excellent manuals on Water-Colour Painting by
Messrs. Penley and Rowbotham, being devoted to more
Jinisked productions, do not supersede the present attempt,
which endeavours to meet such difficulties in Sketching in
Colour as have been overlooked in works of greater preten-
The following pages are intended for the use of such
Students as are accustomed to copy Water-colour drawings,
and find no difficulty in sketching natural objects in Black-
and-white ; yet who feel, when trying to represent Nature in
her proper colours, that they require something more to
guide them than their own perception, which is probably
not sufficiently developed to enable them to seize the
effects that Nature presents, and they are consequently
disappointed at finding their productions devoid of that
brilliancy which' they have been able to attain in their
copies of pictures.
The excellent manuals on Water-Colour Painting by
Messrs. Penley and Rowbotham, being devoted to more
Jinisked productions, do not supersede the present attempt,
which endeavours to meet such difficulties in Sketching in
Colour as have been overlooked in works of greater preten-