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THE LAWS OF FESOLE
doing of it, I must assume, that in the present artistic and
communicative phase of society, the pupil can, at some
chance opportunity, see the ordinary process of washing
with water-colour; or that the child in more happy cir-
cumstances may he allowed so to play with "paints" from
its earliest years, as to be under no particular difficulty in
producing a uniform stain on a piece of pasteboard. The
quantity of pigment to be used cannot be yet defined ;—
the publication of these opening numbers of has
already been so long delayed that I want now to place
them in the student's hand, with what easily explicable de-
tails I can give, as soon as possible; and the plates requir-
ing care in colouring by hand, which will finally be given
as examples/ are deferred until I can give my readers some
general idea of the system to be adopted. But, for the
present need, I can explain all that is wanted without the
help of plates, by reference to dower-tints; not that the
student is to be vexed by any comparisons of his work
with either in respect of brilliancy or texture: if he
can bring his sixpenny circles to an approximate resem-
blance of as many old-fashioned wafers, it is all that is
required of him. He will not be able to do this with one
coat of colour; and had better allow himself three or four
than permit the tints to be uneven.
47. The drst tint, pure gamboge, should be brought, as
near as may be, up to that of the yellow daffodil,—the
part of his daily equipment as his watch or purse. Then the colour-box, thus
composed, gives him all he wants more. For the advanced student, I add the
palette, with all needful mathematical instruments and useful colours. I give
colours, of finest quality,—being content, for beginners, with what I find
one of the best practical colourists in England, my very dear friend Professor
Westwood,^ has found serviceable all his life,—children's colours.
1 [These, however, were never executed. ]
2 [John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893), entomologist and palfeographer; Hope
Professor of Zoology at Oxford (1861-1893) ; and author (among other palneographical
works) of .S'acra (1843-1815) and Phiorhd PhcwTh/a# o/' Jh'm'aCo'&s'
(b*7M7?;e7P.S' o/' uad TW.s'A (1868). The former work is referred
to by Ruskin in Paw PaiA.S', § 28. For other references to Westwood, see
§§ 53, 102-103.]
THE LAWS OF FESOLE
doing of it, I must assume, that in the present artistic and
communicative phase of society, the pupil can, at some
chance opportunity, see the ordinary process of washing
with water-colour; or that the child in more happy cir-
cumstances may he allowed so to play with "paints" from
its earliest years, as to be under no particular difficulty in
producing a uniform stain on a piece of pasteboard. The
quantity of pigment to be used cannot be yet defined ;—
the publication of these opening numbers of has
already been so long delayed that I want now to place
them in the student's hand, with what easily explicable de-
tails I can give, as soon as possible; and the plates requir-
ing care in colouring by hand, which will finally be given
as examples/ are deferred until I can give my readers some
general idea of the system to be adopted. But, for the
present need, I can explain all that is wanted without the
help of plates, by reference to dower-tints; not that the
student is to be vexed by any comparisons of his work
with either in respect of brilliancy or texture: if he
can bring his sixpenny circles to an approximate resem-
blance of as many old-fashioned wafers, it is all that is
required of him. He will not be able to do this with one
coat of colour; and had better allow himself three or four
than permit the tints to be uneven.
47. The drst tint, pure gamboge, should be brought, as
near as may be, up to that of the yellow daffodil,—the
part of his daily equipment as his watch or purse. Then the colour-box, thus
composed, gives him all he wants more. For the advanced student, I add the
palette, with all needful mathematical instruments and useful colours. I give
colours, of finest quality,—being content, for beginners, with what I find
one of the best practical colourists in England, my very dear friend Professor
Westwood,^ has found serviceable all his life,—children's colours.
1 [These, however, were never executed. ]
2 [John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893), entomologist and palfeographer; Hope
Professor of Zoology at Oxford (1861-1893) ; and author (among other palneographical
works) of .S'acra (1843-1815) and Phiorhd PhcwTh/a# o/' Jh'm'aCo'&s'
(b*7M7?;e7P.S' o/' uad TW.s'A (1868). The former work is referred
to by Ruskin in Paw PaiA.S', § 28. For other references to Westwood, see
§§ 53, 102-103.]