DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19951#0011
THE ART
or
LANDSCAPE PAINTING
IN WATER COLOURS.
To prosecute the study of Landscape Painting in Water
Colours successfully, the qualifications of industry and
energy are certainly necessary. But however great may
be the pains bestowed upon the attainment of this object,
the results will be found so gratifying, as to ensure the
fullest and amplest reward to those pains.
The manufacture of all the materials used in this art is
now so perfect, as to give an entirely new character to the
art; for the most varied effects are capable of being pro-
duced by them in subjects of every kind: and, in the
branch to which we propose to introduce the student, there
is no degree of excellence, as to truthfulness and power,
which is not capable of being attained. The preliminary
caution which we wish especially to impress upon the at-
tention of the beginner is, that he should wed himself as
little as possible to the particular style of any given
master, and by making nature his chief guide, should
apply the general principles of art (which he will find
detailed as clearly as it is in our power to detail them), in
B
or
LANDSCAPE PAINTING
IN WATER COLOURS.
To prosecute the study of Landscape Painting in Water
Colours successfully, the qualifications of industry and
energy are certainly necessary. But however great may
be the pains bestowed upon the attainment of this object,
the results will be found so gratifying, as to ensure the
fullest and amplest reward to those pains.
The manufacture of all the materials used in this art is
now so perfect, as to give an entirely new character to the
art; for the most varied effects are capable of being pro-
duced by them in subjects of every kind: and, in the
branch to which we propose to introduce the student, there
is no degree of excellence, as to truthfulness and power,
which is not capable of being attained. The preliminary
caution which we wish especially to impress upon the at-
tention of the beginner is, that he should wed himself as
little as possible to the particular style of any given
master, and by making nature his chief guide, should
apply the general principles of art (which he will find
detailed as clearly as it is in our power to detail them), in
B