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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19751#0095
ON COLOURING LANDSCAPE.
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which is composed of indigo, with a very small portion
of lake, being the same as No. 2, in the last lesson.
With this tint the student must begin at the right-hand
corner, and proceed along the top of the drawing, taking
care to have his brush very full of colour, and to drive
it forward by a succession of short strokes about an inch
long each, leaving, however, a sufficient quantity of
colour to keep the lower edge wet When he has pro-
ceeded half way along the top of the drawing, he must
return to the beginning of the tint, and carry on a second
layer of colour, if I may so call it, taking care to pass
his brush in a trifling degree into the first layer, by
which means the superfluous colour that rests along its
edge will drain downwards into the second layer. When
he has arrived at the end of the first tint, he may carry
them both forward the whole length of the drawing, and
then return to the right-hand corner, and proceed as be-
fore till the whole of the blue part be covered, when
those parts which mingle with the grey of the clouds
must be softened off by means of adding more and more
water to the tint as it is laid on till it become pure
water. By pursuing the above method the learner will
soon be able to lay a flat wash, (one of the greatest dif-
ficulties to beginners,) the art of which consists in keep-
ing a full brush, in never allowing the edge of the tint to
* In order to give the colour a tendency to run downwards, the
upper edge of the drawing-board ought to he propped up with a
hook, or any other solid substance, so that the paper may have a
slanting direction like a writing-desk.
r 2
59
which is composed of indigo, with a very small portion
of lake, being the same as No. 2, in the last lesson.
With this tint the student must begin at the right-hand
corner, and proceed along the top of the drawing, taking
care to have his brush very full of colour, and to drive
it forward by a succession of short strokes about an inch
long each, leaving, however, a sufficient quantity of
colour to keep the lower edge wet When he has pro-
ceeded half way along the top of the drawing, he must
return to the beginning of the tint, and carry on a second
layer of colour, if I may so call it, taking care to pass
his brush in a trifling degree into the first layer, by
which means the superfluous colour that rests along its
edge will drain downwards into the second layer. When
he has arrived at the end of the first tint, he may carry
them both forward the whole length of the drawing, and
then return to the right-hand corner, and proceed as be-
fore till the whole of the blue part be covered, when
those parts which mingle with the grey of the clouds
must be softened off by means of adding more and more
water to the tint as it is laid on till it become pure
water. By pursuing the above method the learner will
soon be able to lay a flat wash, (one of the greatest dif-
ficulties to beginners,) the art of which consists in keep-
ing a full brush, in never allowing the edge of the tint to
* In order to give the colour a tendency to run downwards, the
upper edge of the drawing-board ought to he propped up with a
hook, or any other solid substance, so that the paper may have a
slanting direction like a writing-desk.
r 2