DOI issue:
No. 91 (Septemner, 1904)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26962#0318
Studio-Talk
Water-colour and oils are the two mediums
employed, while the ivory surface is produced by
the use of beeswax and polishing with chamois.
Those done in water-colour are most delicate, but
it is in the oils that one feels the more brilliant
touches of the artist. Here, in a medium which
may to many seem incompatible with the require-
ments of the work, one finds him giving an alto-
gether rich and beautiful tone to his studies.
Mr. Pollock, who is still a young man, comes
from Birmingham, where he received his first
instruction in art. Winning a scholarship at the
Academy there, he came up to South Kensington,
and there fell under the notice of Lanteri, whose
interest and counsel has done most to determine
his career. _
A sound knowledge of anatomy has so far kept
STATUETTE
BY COURTENAY POLLOCK
library shelves, the dead white of the plaster to
be relieved by carefully applied touches of
colour, which would not only render the figures
more pleasing to the eye, but give added cha-
racter and strength to the modelling. Con-
sidering the pronounced success of his first
exhibition, one may safely predict many promising
developments for his future.
Most of these statuettes are done in sombre
tones—dull greys and browns—although one
nude study in flesh tints was most successful.
Some are made to look like old ivory, and
so skilfully that it is scarcely possible to
believe they are but plaster. The colour in
most cases is more suggested than actual, more
felt than seen, so delicately has it been applied.
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SHUTTER IN THE PEACOCK ROOM
DECORATED BY J. MCNEILL WHISTLER
Water-colour and oils are the two mediums
employed, while the ivory surface is produced by
the use of beeswax and polishing with chamois.
Those done in water-colour are most delicate, but
it is in the oils that one feels the more brilliant
touches of the artist. Here, in a medium which
may to many seem incompatible with the require-
ments of the work, one finds him giving an alto-
gether rich and beautiful tone to his studies.
Mr. Pollock, who is still a young man, comes
from Birmingham, where he received his first
instruction in art. Winning a scholarship at the
Academy there, he came up to South Kensington,
and there fell under the notice of Lanteri, whose
interest and counsel has done most to determine
his career. _
A sound knowledge of anatomy has so far kept
STATUETTE
BY COURTENAY POLLOCK
library shelves, the dead white of the plaster to
be relieved by carefully applied touches of
colour, which would not only render the figures
more pleasing to the eye, but give added cha-
racter and strength to the modelling. Con-
sidering the pronounced success of his first
exhibition, one may safely predict many promising
developments for his future.
Most of these statuettes are done in sombre
tones—dull greys and browns—although one
nude study in flesh tints was most successful.
Some are made to look like old ivory, and
so skilfully that it is scarcely possible to
believe they are but plaster. The colour in
most cases is more suggested than actual, more
felt than seen, so delicately has it been applied.
246
SHUTTER IN THE PEACOCK ROOM
DECORATED BY J. MCNEILL WHISTLER