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PROCESSES AND MANIPULATIONS.
The mechanical operations in Water Colour Painting
are few; but as they are employed in the production of
very important effects, principally in lights and in modi-
fying the tones of the picture, the learner must endeavour
to acquire considerable dexterity in executing these opera-
tions.
STRETCHING AND PREPARING THE DRAWING PAPER.
All the care that can be bestowed upon this prepara-
tory process, will be amply repaid by the facility which
will subsequently result in the progress and execution of
the work. The best paper is often spoilt by want of
proper and sufficient attention to this process; for in the
different washings, flaws and defects occur, which, while
apparently resulting from a supposed defect in the paper
itself, yet are in fact to be attributed solely to some over-
sight or neglect in its preparation.
The paper should, as has been observed, be selected
with great care. This selection being made, let the
paper be placed on the drawing board with the face, and
not the reverse, uppermost. The face, or working sur-
face, is that side on which, when the sheet is held between
the eye and the light, the maker's name—the water-
mark, as it is called—can be seen and read in due posi-
tion from left to right. On the reverse side all knots.,
PROCESSES AND MANIPULATIONS.
The mechanical operations in Water Colour Painting
are few; but as they are employed in the production of
very important effects, principally in lights and in modi-
fying the tones of the picture, the learner must endeavour
to acquire considerable dexterity in executing these opera-
tions.
STRETCHING AND PREPARING THE DRAWING PAPER.
All the care that can be bestowed upon this prepara-
tory process, will be amply repaid by the facility which
will subsequently result in the progress and execution of
the work. The best paper is often spoilt by want of
proper and sufficient attention to this process; for in the
different washings, flaws and defects occur, which, while
apparently resulting from a supposed defect in the paper
itself, yet are in fact to be attributed solely to some over-
sight or neglect in its preparation.
The paper should, as has been observed, be selected
with great care. This selection being made, let the
paper be placed on the drawing board with the face, and
not the reverse, uppermost. The face, or working sur-
face, is that side on which, when the sheet is held between
the eye and the light, the maker's name—the water-
mark, as it is called—can be seen and read in due posi-
tion from left to right. On the reverse side all knots.,