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SUNSET. 47
Some artists possess portfolios of skies put, in this
manner, on tinted paper : they may be caught thus from
a window at a moment's notice, when all might have
changed into sombre gloom long before colour could
even have been prepared on the palette. Moonlight or
moonrise may be imitated in the same manner as sunset;
but Gamboge or Indian Yellow will be best for tinting
the moon, over the lower portion of which a faint tone
of warmth may, when the moon is near the horizon, be
given with Light Red. The sky in moonlight may be
laid in with Indigo and a little Vandyke Brown and
Lake; dark clouds, with Lamp Black and French Blue.
With the two latter colours alone various beautiful stormy
skies may be represented; the contrast of the blue
causing the black to assume, if desired, a warm tone in
shadows.
Practice according to the rules thus laid down will
enable the learner to express most or all of the varied
effects he sees in nature or in the works of the best
masters ; but he must bear in mind the important fact,
that the power of painting a picture is not to be acquired
from books alone, although it is hoped the assistance
here given may, with perseverance and assiduity on his
part, enable him ultimately to overcome some of the diffi-
culties of art; as well by beneficially directing him with
his early attempts in sketching from nature, as by saving
an amount of time that might be otherwise uselessly spent
in various efforts to discover such necessary processes as
can be taught by description.
THE END.
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Some artists possess portfolios of skies put, in this
manner, on tinted paper : they may be caught thus from
a window at a moment's notice, when all might have
changed into sombre gloom long before colour could
even have been prepared on the palette. Moonlight or
moonrise may be imitated in the same manner as sunset;
but Gamboge or Indian Yellow will be best for tinting
the moon, over the lower portion of which a faint tone
of warmth may, when the moon is near the horizon, be
given with Light Red. The sky in moonlight may be
laid in with Indigo and a little Vandyke Brown and
Lake; dark clouds, with Lamp Black and French Blue.
With the two latter colours alone various beautiful stormy
skies may be represented; the contrast of the blue
causing the black to assume, if desired, a warm tone in
shadows.
Practice according to the rules thus laid down will
enable the learner to express most or all of the varied
effects he sees in nature or in the works of the best
masters ; but he must bear in mind the important fact,
that the power of painting a picture is not to be acquired
from books alone, although it is hoped the assistance
here given may, with perseverance and assiduity on his
part, enable him ultimately to overcome some of the diffi-
culties of art; as well by beneficially directing him with
his early attempts in sketching from nature, as by saving
an amount of time that might be otherwise uselessly spent
in various efforts to discover such necessary processes as
can be taught by description.
THE END.
' <n- -uri&\dfy-j j£<v~ltu*AsO £u*rrt**4?«* fr^° "W'*'^^"^^