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METHOD OF PAINTIXG.
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and other good colourists, were in the habit of working
with the three primitive colours instead of compounding
their tints. The directions of Rubens to his pupils with
regard to the painting of flesh, have been transmitted to
us by the Chevalier Mechel. The great artist is reported
to have said: " Paint your lights White, place next to it
Yellow, then Red, using dark Red as it passes into the
shadow; then with a brush dipped in cool Grey pass
gently over the whole, till they are tempered and sweetened
to the tone you wish." These remarks, of course, apply
to oil painting, but the principle is the same in every kind
of painting. It will be seen presently how far this prin-
ciple is borne out in the following directions for painting
in water-colours.
Stippling consists in working on the part to be painted
with fine dots with the point of the brush. Hatching is
the same kind of work, but it is executed with lines in-
stead of points. There are different methods of hatching,
and probably every artist has his own peculiar mode.
After trying several, the following method is recom-
mended.
First work over the space to be covered with the colour
with short, wide, regular, and somewhat horizontal strokes,
worked firmly in rows from the top downwards, so as not
to leave little blots at the ends of the strokes, preserving
at the same time as much as possible the direction of the
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and other good colourists, were in the habit of working
with the three primitive colours instead of compounding
their tints. The directions of Rubens to his pupils with
regard to the painting of flesh, have been transmitted to
us by the Chevalier Mechel. The great artist is reported
to have said: " Paint your lights White, place next to it
Yellow, then Red, using dark Red as it passes into the
shadow; then with a brush dipped in cool Grey pass
gently over the whole, till they are tempered and sweetened
to the tone you wish." These remarks, of course, apply
to oil painting, but the principle is the same in every kind
of painting. It will be seen presently how far this prin-
ciple is borne out in the following directions for painting
in water-colours.
Stippling consists in working on the part to be painted
with fine dots with the point of the brush. Hatching is
the same kind of work, but it is executed with lines in-
stead of points. There are different methods of hatching,
and probably every artist has his own peculiar mode.
After trying several, the following method is recom-
mended.
First work over the space to be covered with the colour
with short, wide, regular, and somewhat horizontal strokes,
worked firmly in rows from the top downwards, so as not
to leave little blots at the ends of the strokes, preserving
at the same time as much as possible the direction of the