The Painter in oil

But if you are in touch with your century, if you would paint to express the suggestion you receive from nature you study, or if ...

CHAPTER XVIII: PERSPECTIVE There are two kinds of perspective, linear and aërial. The former has to do with the manner in which ...

There are some kinds of subjects, however, which require a complete knowledge of all the rules of processes of perspective. When ...

CHAPTER XIX: LIGHT AND SHADE Chiaroscuro. - A few words about chiaroscuro and will be useful. This is a term of great importance ...

space of canvas to be proportioned to light and to dark. The gradations of light and dark spread over the canvas was calculated ...

Effects of Light. - It is important to study the different qualities of light. Take, for instance, the difference of character o ...

Bohemiam Woman, by Frans Hal Woman Sewing By Candleight, by Millet ...

Desent From The Cross, by Rembrandt ...

CHAPTER XX: COMPOSITION Importance. - Composition is of the utmost importance. It is impossible that a picture should be good wi ...

Art for Art’s Sake. - This is the real meaning of the much-debated phrase, “Art for art’s sake.” The mistake which leads to the ...

mountains, and every and any other natural fact, you may consider as so many bits of form and color with which you may work out ...

“The Golden Stairs,” by Burne-Jones, is almost purely an arrangement in line, and beautifully illustrates the use of this elemen ...

So you may apply this principle more or less exactly to the composition of a picture. Don’t try to express too many things in on ...

Still Life. - For practical study of composition, the most useful materials you can have are to be found in still life. Nowhere ...

The Golden Stairs, by Burne-Jones ...

CHAPTER XXI: COLOR THE subject of color naturally divides, for the painter, into two branches, - color as a quality, and color a ...

judgment of pictures, as well as in the growth and permanency of his own fame. That is why a great popular reputation dies so ra ...

color harmony are definite, and have been definitely 6tudied and definitely calculated. Color depends for its existence on waves ...

Key. - The key, then, is an important part of the picture. The very terms warm and cold applied to colors suggest what may be do ...

The tone painter deals with close intervals. He is in love with subtle harmonies. What he loves is the essence of the color qual ...