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ON FRUIT AND FLOWER DRAWING.
paper for the high lights. When this is done, the stu-
dent may shade the convolvulus and tulip with sepia,
and the rose and rose-buds with pure lake, when the
drawing will be dead-coloured, as in the first plate of
flowers *.
In flower painting, the student ought to have a brush
at each end of his stick, one of which must be used to
lay on the tint, whilst the other is kept clean and moist
to soften them off with.
The next tint to be mixed up (see the finished plate)
is No. Id, with which all the rose-leaves and leaves of
the hare-bells must be coloured ; for the leaves of the con-
volvulus mix up No. 15, to which add a little indigo for
the leaves of the tulip: the rose and rose-buds must be
finished up with pure lake to the requisite degree of
strength, with which also must be done the streaks of
o *
the tulip ; the convolvulus and hare-bells being worked
up with faint washes of pure Prussian blue,—the minute
prickles, which are found on the stem of the rose, are
made of pure lake, and must be laid on with the small-
est brush.
* The reason why I recommend all green leaves to be shaded
with neutral tint before the greens are laid on, is, that when
the student comes to lay two or three tints of green one over
another, as is necessary to finish them, he must unavoidably
wash up the first tint whilst laying on the second, by which
means the flatness will be destroyed, and his drawing rendered
an unseemly daub. Greens take such little hold of the paper,
that even the most expert can scarcely lay one tint over ano-
ther without disturbing that tint which is underneath.
ON FRUIT AND FLOWER DRAWING.
paper for the high lights. When this is done, the stu-
dent may shade the convolvulus and tulip with sepia,
and the rose and rose-buds with pure lake, when the
drawing will be dead-coloured, as in the first plate of
flowers *.
In flower painting, the student ought to have a brush
at each end of his stick, one of which must be used to
lay on the tint, whilst the other is kept clean and moist
to soften them off with.
The next tint to be mixed up (see the finished plate)
is No. Id, with which all the rose-leaves and leaves of
the hare-bells must be coloured ; for the leaves of the con-
volvulus mix up No. 15, to which add a little indigo for
the leaves of the tulip: the rose and rose-buds must be
finished up with pure lake to the requisite degree of
strength, with which also must be done the streaks of
o *
the tulip ; the convolvulus and hare-bells being worked
up with faint washes of pure Prussian blue,—the minute
prickles, which are found on the stem of the rose, are
made of pure lake, and must be laid on with the small-
est brush.
* The reason why I recommend all green leaves to be shaded
with neutral tint before the greens are laid on, is, that when
the student comes to lay two or three tints of green one over
another, as is necessary to finish them, he must unavoidably
wash up the first tint whilst laying on the second, by which
means the flatness will be destroyed, and his drawing rendered
an unseemly daub. Greens take such little hold of the paper,
that even the most expert can scarcely lay one tint over ano-
ther without disturbing that tint which is underneath.