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INDIAN INK.
out their foliage* and increasing in strength as they
approach the house: with this tint the grass on each
side of the road may be covered, as well as the shadow-
on the house, softening it off as before; the shapes in
the water may also be finished, this time taking care to
soften them as they get downwards. All that is now re-
quired is one strong tint, with which must be done all
the marking and touching up of the house, winter, bridge,
weeds, the grass on each side of the road, and the dark
posts which stand against the house, with their reflections
in the water, fyc. A few7 darker touches may be added
at the last, when the drawing will be finished.
In sketching from nature, many artists make use of
grey paper, on which, after drawing a correct outline,
the shades are laid in with sepia, Indian ink or black
chalk, and the lights with white colour or white
chalk ; this method is extremely expeditious, and is to
be preferred to finished blacklead pencil sketching on
white paper, as the student will always have sufficient
quantity of middle tint, which learners seldom obtain
when sketching on white paper, owing either to their
ignorance or indolence. As to the colour of the paper, it
is a thing of but little consequence, so long as it be neither
too dark nor too light; though, for my own use I prefer
a paper of a sepia colour as in the annexed plate,
on which I lay in my shades with sepia, and my lights
with white water-colour, by which it is rendered a near
imitation of a sepia drawing, and at the same time will
not rub out, as is the case when it is finished with black
and white chalk.
INDIAN INK.
out their foliage* and increasing in strength as they
approach the house: with this tint the grass on each
side of the road may be covered, as well as the shadow-
on the house, softening it off as before; the shapes in
the water may also be finished, this time taking care to
soften them as they get downwards. All that is now re-
quired is one strong tint, with which must be done all
the marking and touching up of the house, winter, bridge,
weeds, the grass on each side of the road, and the dark
posts which stand against the house, with their reflections
in the water, fyc. A few7 darker touches may be added
at the last, when the drawing will be finished.
In sketching from nature, many artists make use of
grey paper, on which, after drawing a correct outline,
the shades are laid in with sepia, Indian ink or black
chalk, and the lights with white colour or white
chalk ; this method is extremely expeditious, and is to
be preferred to finished blacklead pencil sketching on
white paper, as the student will always have sufficient
quantity of middle tint, which learners seldom obtain
when sketching on white paper, owing either to their
ignorance or indolence. As to the colour of the paper, it
is a thing of but little consequence, so long as it be neither
too dark nor too light; though, for my own use I prefer
a paper of a sepia colour as in the annexed plate,
on which I lay in my shades with sepia, and my lights
with white water-colour, by which it is rendered a near
imitation of a sepia drawing, and at the same time will
not rub out, as is the case when it is finished with black
and white chalk.