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KEEPING.
the opportunities frequently occur from the rapidity with
which the work is necessarily carried on. This is where
Colour has a decided advantage over Black-and-white. No
pencil sketch could ever he thus suggestive of fine effects.
Indeed, Colour is tin1 most natural and simple way of
representing Nature: Black-and-white, and its modifica-
tions, give but a conventional translation of her effects,
and her various colours are but studiedly and labouredly
represented by tints of grey. It may be the best medium
for elementary instruction in Art, and, indeed, is most
essential for outline at all times; but it is a medium
elaborated by professors, and not immediately suggested by
Nature.
But apart from Colour, the use of the brush gives powTer,
from the facility of getting a mass of tint at once. Even
in Sepia, or Indian Ink, harsh as it is, we gain more
readiness of effect by this means : wdiile niggling with the
point of the pencil you lose the effect, aud your imagina-
tion cools. Imagine a scene-painter doomed to produce
his fine bold effects with a point, instead of dashing them in
with a tool charged from a pailful of colour ! Every one
must have felt, in the use of the black-lead pencil, a
certain degree of impatience at the slow progress he is
compelled to make by using a point merely, and has
naturally wished for a more expeditious manner of ob-
taining effect; and this is obtained by the use of the
brush, wduch gives the power of producing a breadth of
tint of whatever strength or delicacy may suit the purpose.
KEEPING.
the opportunities frequently occur from the rapidity with
which the work is necessarily carried on. This is where
Colour has a decided advantage over Black-and-white. No
pencil sketch could ever he thus suggestive of fine effects.
Indeed, Colour is tin1 most natural and simple way of
representing Nature: Black-and-white, and its modifica-
tions, give but a conventional translation of her effects,
and her various colours are but studiedly and labouredly
represented by tints of grey. It may be the best medium
for elementary instruction in Art, and, indeed, is most
essential for outline at all times; but it is a medium
elaborated by professors, and not immediately suggested by
Nature.
But apart from Colour, the use of the brush gives powTer,
from the facility of getting a mass of tint at once. Even
in Sepia, or Indian Ink, harsh as it is, we gain more
readiness of effect by this means : wdiile niggling with the
point of the pencil you lose the effect, aud your imagina-
tion cools. Imagine a scene-painter doomed to produce
his fine bold effects with a point, instead of dashing them in
with a tool charged from a pailful of colour ! Every one
must have felt, in the use of the black-lead pencil, a
certain degree of impatience at the slow progress he is
compelled to make by using a point merely, and has
naturally wished for a more expeditious manner of ob-
taining effect; and this is obtained by the use of the
brush, wduch gives the power of producing a breadth of
tint of whatever strength or delicacy may suit the purpose.