But you work on: an enthusiasm has taken possession of you; the paints mix
too slowly; you use your thumb, smearing and blending with a bit of rag—anything
for the effect. One moment you are glued to your seat, your eyes riveted on your
canvas; the next, you are up and backing away, taking it in as a whole, then pouncing down upon it
quickly, belaboring it with your brush. Soon the trees take shape; the sky forms
become definite; the meadow lies flat and loses itself in the fringe of
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When all of this begins to grow upon your once blank canvas, and some lucky
pat matches the exact tone of blue-gray haze or shimmer of leaf, or some
accidental blending of color delights you with its truth, a tingling goes down
your backbone, and a rush surges through your veins that stirs you as nothing
else in your whole life will ever do. The reaction comes the next day when, in
the cold light of your studio, you see how far short you have come and how crude
and false is your best touch compared with the glory of the landscape in your
mind and heart. But the thrill that it gave you will linger forever! oil painting reproductions for sale
Or come with me to Constantinople and let us study its palaces and mosques,
its marvellous stuffs, its romantic history, its religions—most profound and impressive—its
commerce, industries, and customs. Come to revel in color; to sit for hours,
following with reverent pencil the details of an architecture unrivalled on the
globe; to watch the sun scale the hills of Scutari and shatter its lances
against the fairy minarets of Stamboul; to catch the swing and plash of the
rowers rounding their caiques by the bridge of Galata; to wander through
bazaar and market, dotting down splashes of robe, turban, and sash; to rest for
hours in cool tiled mosques, which in their very decay are sublime; to study a
people whose rags are symphonies of color, and whose traditions and records
breathe the sweetest poems of modern times. reproduction oil paintings for sale
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