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TREES AXD FOREGROUNDS.
Lastly, a few lines erased horizontally, when the work
is dry, will give the effect of clear water above the stones,
by the expression of surface.
In moor and rocky scenes, the purple heather forms a
beautiful contrast to the rich greens and browns of the
foreground. This heather may be best represented by
Cobalt and Madder Lake, or Cobalt and Crimson Lakej
which may either be put upon spaces left for the purpose^,
or be laid in with white and glazed over. Rich mosses
and In liens on rocks are best imitated with Sepia and
Indian Yellow, or Lake, Indigo, and Vandyke Brown;
though tints of Olive Green and Brown Pink are also
used for similar purposes.
In painting richly-coloured foregrounds in general,
where it is required to take out many lights, the colours
are sometimes worked with water in which a small piece
of loaf-sugar or white sugar-candy has been dissolved. A
piece of the size of a hazel-nut will be sufficient for a
tumbler of water. The operation of taking out lights is
greatly facilitated by the use of this solution; but let
it be carefully observed that the early tints and washes
must not be put in with this water, as it would cause
them to wash up and blend into any colour laid over
them.
Some persons, in finishing a drawing, use a quantity
of Gum Arabic for the purpose of heightening and en-
riching the colours. A judicious use of this gum is not
objectionable; and on some papers it is really necessary,
as the colours will not bear out sufficiently without it.
The student, however, will do well to bear in mind, that
any details put in with gum water cannot be washed
over without the risk of beins; carried away, or at least
of having their sharpness destroyed. A solution of gum
water may. either be used with the colours, or it maybe
glazed over them when dry. The latter method will be
found useful where the stronger tints of the work have
apparently sunk into the paper, or have become dead and
TREES AXD FOREGROUNDS.
Lastly, a few lines erased horizontally, when the work
is dry, will give the effect of clear water above the stones,
by the expression of surface.
In moor and rocky scenes, the purple heather forms a
beautiful contrast to the rich greens and browns of the
foreground. This heather may be best represented by
Cobalt and Madder Lake, or Cobalt and Crimson Lakej
which may either be put upon spaces left for the purpose^,
or be laid in with white and glazed over. Rich mosses
and In liens on rocks are best imitated with Sepia and
Indian Yellow, or Lake, Indigo, and Vandyke Brown;
though tints of Olive Green and Brown Pink are also
used for similar purposes.
In painting richly-coloured foregrounds in general,
where it is required to take out many lights, the colours
are sometimes worked with water in which a small piece
of loaf-sugar or white sugar-candy has been dissolved. A
piece of the size of a hazel-nut will be sufficient for a
tumbler of water. The operation of taking out lights is
greatly facilitated by the use of this solution; but let
it be carefully observed that the early tints and washes
must not be put in with this water, as it would cause
them to wash up and blend into any colour laid over
them.
Some persons, in finishing a drawing, use a quantity
of Gum Arabic for the purpose of heightening and en-
riching the colours. A judicious use of this gum is not
objectionable; and on some papers it is really necessary,
as the colours will not bear out sufficiently without it.
The student, however, will do well to bear in mind, that
any details put in with gum water cannot be washed
over without the risk of beins; carried away, or at least
of having their sharpness destroyed. A solution of gum
water may. either be used with the colours, or it maybe
glazed over them when dry. The latter method will be
found useful where the stronger tints of the work have
apparently sunk into the paper, or have become dead and