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ON COLOURING LANDSCAPE.
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The above method of minding one tint with another
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by means of softening them off with water is, perhaps,
the best that the student can begin with; as soon, how-
ever, as he has acquired a certain degree of capability
in handling his brush, it will be as well if he begin to do
it in the following manner : Having laid on the blue tint
O o
of the skv as before directed, instead of softening it with
water, he must gradually add small portions of the
above colour, till the whole be changed into that tint,
which he must carry forward in the same way as before
directed. To acquire this method, so quick in its exe-
cution, so easy (when once learnt) in its practice, and so
necessary in drawing, almost every object in nature
ought to excite the student’s most earnest attention ; and
it is only by a capability of readily changing the tint whilst
laying it on, that rapidity of execution and the power
of expressing a great deal with but few tints is acquired.
The distant hill is coloured with exactly the same tint
as the sky, being made of indigo and lake; when dry, a
second tint, the same as No. 8, is laid over the bottom
part, and the whole of the sky and distance is then
finished.
The next thing to be done is the house-end, beginning
with a faint tint of pure yellow ochre on the left-hand
corner, which must be changed as it is carried forward,
by adding lake and indigo in very small proportions,
making it the coolest and darkest in the right-hand
corner, taking care to leave the wdndow white.
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The road must next be done with the tint No. 21,
near the house, changing it as it comes forward by
61
The above method of minding one tint with another
o O
by means of softening them off with water is, perhaps,
the best that the student can begin with; as soon, how-
ever, as he has acquired a certain degree of capability
in handling his brush, it will be as well if he begin to do
it in the following manner : Having laid on the blue tint
O o
of the skv as before directed, instead of softening it with
water, he must gradually add small portions of the
above colour, till the whole be changed into that tint,
which he must carry forward in the same way as before
directed. To acquire this method, so quick in its exe-
cution, so easy (when once learnt) in its practice, and so
necessary in drawing, almost every object in nature
ought to excite the student’s most earnest attention ; and
it is only by a capability of readily changing the tint whilst
laying it on, that rapidity of execution and the power
of expressing a great deal with but few tints is acquired.
The distant hill is coloured with exactly the same tint
as the sky, being made of indigo and lake; when dry, a
second tint, the same as No. 8, is laid over the bottom
part, and the whole of the sky and distance is then
finished.
The next thing to be done is the house-end, beginning
with a faint tint of pure yellow ochre on the left-hand
corner, which must be changed as it is carried forward,
by adding lake and indigo in very small proportions,
making it the coolest and darkest in the right-hand
corner, taking care to leave the wdndow white.
* O
The road must next be done with the tint No. 21,
near the house, changing it as it comes forward by