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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19751#0101
ON COLOURING LANDSCAPE.
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possible to describe it by words, whilst strict attention to
the copy will soon enable the pupil to imitate the forms
of the different ways of shadowing earth, trees, grass,
Src. In finishing the road, No. 24 must be used near
the house, changing it gradually as it comes forward into
No. 21; great care must be taken to leave the light
edges of the cart ruts of the same form as the original, as
otherwise the perspective of the road will be incorrect,
and consequently its flatness destroyed.
The student must now put in all the dark spirited
touches with Vandyke brown, making use of rather a
small brush: with this colour the cart ruts, shade-side
of the wood work, the window frame, fyc. fyc. cj-c,, must
be laid in very dark, leaving the colour full, so that it
may dry with a sharp edge.
All that now remains to finish the drawing is to touch
in the figure, of which the lower part of the drapery is
done with lake, and the upper part with burnt sienna,
both of them being laid on as strong as possible; the
bonnet is made of a dark spot of Vandyke brown. The
student will most probably find the greatest difficulty in
doing the white handkerchief round the woman’s neck,
which is “ scraped up” or “ taken up,” terms given by
water-colour painters to two different methods of remov-
ing the colour, in order to represent any small white or
light-coloured object, which it is difficult to leave, or
which may have been forgotten.
Scraping up is generally done with a sharp penknife
or an instrument made on purpose, with a point like a
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possible to describe it by words, whilst strict attention to
the copy will soon enable the pupil to imitate the forms
of the different ways of shadowing earth, trees, grass,
Src. In finishing the road, No. 24 must be used near
the house, changing it gradually as it comes forward into
No. 21; great care must be taken to leave the light
edges of the cart ruts of the same form as the original, as
otherwise the perspective of the road will be incorrect,
and consequently its flatness destroyed.
The student must now put in all the dark spirited
touches with Vandyke brown, making use of rather a
small brush: with this colour the cart ruts, shade-side
of the wood work, the window frame, fyc. fyc. cj-c,, must
be laid in very dark, leaving the colour full, so that it
may dry with a sharp edge.
All that now remains to finish the drawing is to touch
in the figure, of which the lower part of the drapery is
done with lake, and the upper part with burnt sienna,
both of them being laid on as strong as possible; the
bonnet is made of a dark spot of Vandyke brown. The
student will most probably find the greatest difficulty in
doing the white handkerchief round the woman’s neck,
which is “ scraped up” or “ taken up,” terms given by
water-colour painters to two different methods of remov-
ing the colour, in order to represent any small white or
light-coloured object, which it is difficult to leave, or
which may have been forgotten.
Scraping up is generally done with a sharp penknife
or an instrument made on purpose, with a point like a