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ON COLOURING LANDSCAPE.
remain too long in one place *, and in never touching,
whilst wet, a tint after it has been laid. Should a
quantity of the tint remain at the edges of the white
clouds, it may be taken up by applying a clean brush
which has been dipt in water, and the wet squeezed
out; care must be taken, however, that too much of the
tint be not absorbed, and a white place left.
The next tint is that of the clouds, which is made of
lake, indigo, and raw umber, and is the same as No. 4, in
the last lesson. In laying it on, the student must begin
by a wash of clean water over the right-hand corner of
the blue sky, adding by degrees more and more of the
tint as he gets lower down in the drawing j; he must
next endeavour to leave the white edges of the clouds as
near as possible of the same shape as the copy, and then
carry the tint down to the house-end and over the dis-
tance, softening it off into the road. In the left-hand
corner the clouds are softened into the blue sky, as in
the right-hand side.
Cj
* The student ought never to allow the edge of any tint to
remain in the same place untouched more than four or five seconds,
nless the paper he of a very rough kind, when it may he allowed
to rest ten or fifteen seconds. It is for this reason that I would
always recommend the learner to begin with small drawings, and
to make use of strong rough paper, which is to be had at about one
shilling the sheet at most colour shops, and which for small draw-
ings does not require to be stretched.
t This process is exactly the reverse of the last, in which the
blue sky was softened by adding more water: in practising this
method, however, he must take great care that one tint be perfectly
dry before he lays on the next.
ON COLOURING LANDSCAPE.
remain too long in one place *, and in never touching,
whilst wet, a tint after it has been laid. Should a
quantity of the tint remain at the edges of the white
clouds, it may be taken up by applying a clean brush
which has been dipt in water, and the wet squeezed
out; care must be taken, however, that too much of the
tint be not absorbed, and a white place left.
The next tint is that of the clouds, which is made of
lake, indigo, and raw umber, and is the same as No. 4, in
the last lesson. In laying it on, the student must begin
by a wash of clean water over the right-hand corner of
the blue sky, adding by degrees more and more of the
tint as he gets lower down in the drawing j; he must
next endeavour to leave the white edges of the clouds as
near as possible of the same shape as the copy, and then
carry the tint down to the house-end and over the dis-
tance, softening it off into the road. In the left-hand
corner the clouds are softened into the blue sky, as in
the right-hand side.
Cj
* The student ought never to allow the edge of any tint to
remain in the same place untouched more than four or five seconds,
nless the paper he of a very rough kind, when it may he allowed
to rest ten or fifteen seconds. It is for this reason that I would
always recommend the learner to begin with small drawings, and
to make use of strong rough paper, which is to be had at about one
shilling the sheet at most colour shops, and which for small draw-
ings does not require to be stretched.
t This process is exactly the reverse of the last, in which the
blue sky was softened by adding more water: in practising this
method, however, he must take great care that one tint be perfectly
dry before he lays on the next.