So it is with the millions of other tones in the whole composition, when such
perfectly transparent colors as brown madder, Indian yellow, and indigo are used
as a glaze, altering and modifying the undertone of charcoal to any desired tint
and at the same time preserving the all-important thing—its transparency.
In conclusion, let me say that I fully recognize that I am addressing
students whose training enables them to understand perfectly this explanation,
and that further instructions are therefore unnecessary. paintings for sale
One thing, however, may be accentuated, and that is the use of plenty of
clean water. Another is that you should keep your palettes separate. For myself,
I make use of a common white metallic dinner-plate, known as iron-stone china,
costing another ten cents, for my sky-palette, squeezing the color-tubes in a
row around its edge and my Chinese white below them on one side toward the
bottom. For my transparent palette, I use an ordinary moist sixteen-pan
color-box, being always careful never to blur it with even a brush stroke of
body color (Chinese white); and for my opaque work, an oval white metal palette,
with thumb-hole, and indentations around its edge into which I squeeze the
contents of my moist water-color tubes, my Chinese white being heaped up in a
little mound near my thumb.
The result may be seen in some of the illustrations accompanying this
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