Smith, Thomas [Hrsg.]: The Art Of Drawing In Its Various Branches: Exemplified In A Course Of Twenty-Eight progressive Lessons, Calculated To Afford Those Who Are Unacquainted With The Art, The Means Of Acquiring A Competent Knowledge Without The Aid Of A Master ; Being The Only Work Of The Kind In Which The Principles Of Effect Are Explained In A Clear, Methodical, And At The Same Time Familiar Style. Illustrated With Coloured Designs And Numerous Wood Engravings (London, 1827)

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buildings. We have, however, already described the
uses of this colour in Lesson XIII.

Having now given a description of all the tints which
will be wanted by the learner, I must advise him to try
to imitate them on a piece of paper, beginning with the
first tint, which he must keep doing over and over, till
by dint of practice he can make at any time a fac-simile
of it; this being done, he may proceed to the next,
which he will learn to do much sooner than the first,
as the care he bestowed in obtaining; the foregoing; tint

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will accelerate the acquirement of this ; he should also
try to lay them as flat and even as possible, as one of
the principal beauties of water-colour painting, especially
in the skies, consists in the flatness and evenness of the
tints.

LESSON XV.

On colouring Landscape.

We now arrive at the most difficult, and at the same
time the most interesting part, of drawing, which is
colouring, or, as it has of late years been very pro-
perly termed Painting in Water-Colours and I
must here again take the opportunity of observing, that
I never yet found any advantage in delaying the student’s
entrance “ into coloursa thing so ardently desired by