DOI Heft:
No. 164 (November, 1906)
DOI Artikel:The water-colours and oil-paintings of W. Dacres Adams
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0152
IV. Dacres Adams
gradually thus bringing the
whole work to completion.
Certain beautiful results of
finish can be identified with
this method, but another
method which Mr. Adams
has evidently chosen, whilst
promising less beauty of
finish, aids the artist in a
suggestion of atmosphere.
He attains this by working
towards the finish of his
picture, not piece by piece,
but by bringing the whole
of it at once, through a
succession of stages, to
completion. This latter
method requires in water-
"the widower" (water-colour) by w. d. adams colours a certain liquid
handling of the paint
in detail led the pre-Raphaelites to elaborate each which itself yields the most attractive qualities,
picture piece by piece, finishing it entirely at It is the quality of the painting that makes Mr
some small point before proceeding to another, Adams' work so interesting to study, for its
"the golden mermaid" (water-colour)
132
by w. d. adams
gradually thus bringing the
whole work to completion.
Certain beautiful results of
finish can be identified with
this method, but another
method which Mr. Adams
has evidently chosen, whilst
promising less beauty of
finish, aids the artist in a
suggestion of atmosphere.
He attains this by working
towards the finish of his
picture, not piece by piece,
but by bringing the whole
of it at once, through a
succession of stages, to
completion. This latter
method requires in water-
"the widower" (water-colour) by w. d. adams colours a certain liquid
handling of the paint
in detail led the pre-Raphaelites to elaborate each which itself yields the most attractive qualities,
picture piece by piece, finishing it entirely at It is the quality of the painting that makes Mr
some small point before proceeding to another, Adams' work so interesting to study, for its
"the golden mermaid" (water-colour)
132
by w. d. adams