International studio (30.1906/1907(1907))

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“the widower” (water-colour)

BY W. D. ADAMS

gradually thus bringing the
whole work to completion.
Certain beautiful results of
finish can be identified with
this method, but another
method which Mr. Adams
has evidently chosen, whilst
promising less beauty of
finish, aids the artist in a
suggestion of atmosphere.
He attains this by workirg
towards the finish of his
picture, not piece by piece,
but by bringing the whole
of it at once, through a
succession of stages, to
completion. This latter
method requires in water-
colours a certain liquid

handling of the paint
in detail led the pre-Raphaelites to elaborate each which itself yields the most attractive qualities,
picture piece by piece, finishing it entirely at It is the quality of the painting that makes Mr
some small point before proceeding to another, Adams’ work so interesting to study, for its


“the golden mermaid” (water-colour)

BY W. D.' ADAMS

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