The Painter in oil

CHAPTER XI: TRADITION AND INDIVIDUALITY A picture is made up of many elements. Certain of them are essentially abstract. They mu ...

must express yourself. These are the tools of the trade. They are the words of your art language - the language itself being the ...

With the invention of this medium new possibilities came into the world, and a continual succession of painters have been invent ...

CHAPTER XII: ORIGINALITY Originality is not a thing to strive for. If it comes, it is not through striving. The search for origi ...

But what is a picture? I have met some strange though positive notions as to what is and what is not a picture. Some persons thi ...

CHAPTER XIII: THE ARTIST AND THE STUDENT It is a mistake to make pictures too soon. The nearest a student is likely to get to a ...

It is more important to give the sentiment of the thing than to give the fact of it; not merely because it is more truly represe ...

CHAPTER XIV: HOW TO STUDY There is a right and a wrong way to study, and it all centres around the fact that what you aim to lea ...

to measure and to judge them. Painting is the art of perception before everything, and when you copy you only see, accept, what ...

I have mentioned the training of your critical judgment as necessity in your education. You can do it slowly in learning to pain ...

practically no problem possible to in-the-house light which may not be worked out by means of still life. The training in percep ...

CHAPTER XV: TECHNICAL PRELIMINARIES Reasons. - Painting is something more than laying on paint. It implies a certain amount of k ...

matter which is continually essential to it - which is part and parcel of it. Another reason for the careful reading of these ch ...

CHAPTER XVI: DRAWING Drawing is basic to painting. Good painting cannot exist without it. I do not mean that there must be alway ...

Proportions. - All good work is from the general to the particular, from the mass to the detail. Keep that in mind as a fundamen ...

Hold your charcoal in your hand freely, so that your thumb can slip along it and mark off parts of the object when you sight at ...

In this drawing by Albrecht D?rer you have a splendid example of exactness and feeling for your character. You could have no bet ...

Study of Praying Hands, by Albrecht Durer ...

CHAPTER XVII: VALUES The Term. - The word “values” is seldom understood by the average individual, yet it should not be difficul ...

condition of light, as governing the modern picture. For you cannot accept the ordinary or actual condition of light, as governi ...