The Painter in oil

Primaries and Secondaries. - As all the other shades of color are produced by the combinations (over-lappings) of the waves or v ...

Complementary colors mixed, or so placed that small portions of them are side by side, as in hatching or stippling, give the ter ...

emphasize; or mixed through to neutralize, the force of it. Train your eyes to see what the color is which makes the effect. Ana ...

The Palette. - You try to attain nature’s effects of light with pigment. Pigment is less pure than light. You cannot have the sa ...

The Lady of Shallott, by Holman Hunt ...

Cardplayers At Candlelight, By Gerard Dou ...

The Sergeant’s Portrait, by Ernest Messionier ...

THE POST OF DANGER, BY ALPHONSE DE NUEVILLE ...

CHAPTER XXII: REPRESENTATION Although much has been said about the theoretical and abstract side of painting, and the important ...

It has been said that there are as many ways of painting as there are painters. Certainly there are as many ways as they are men ...

Let us understand what direct painting is first, and then consider varieties of handling. For whatever may be the subsequent man ...

There is nothing like it elsewhere. Study it; notice the unaffectedness of brush-stroke in Rembrandt. See how it is the same as ...

Gerald Dou remains a great painter, an even a broad painter, strange as it may sound, in spite of his microscopic work. But only ...

CHAPTER XXIII: MANIPULATION Premier Coupe. - Something similar to what I have spoken of as “direct painting” has long been a muc ...

Don’t try to economize on your mixing. A color mixed for one place will never do for another, so don’t try to paint another lace ...

The scumble may be used with the richer and darker colors, too, to modify towards richness the tone of parts of the picture, or ...

If you want to make a picture, or a part of it, brighter and lighter, bring it up in pitch with body color first, with solid pai ...

CHAPTER XXIV: COPYING Copying may well be spoken of here as it is in a sense a kind of manipulation. It is a means of study to t ...

Study your original carefully before and while working on your own canvas. See how it was done if you can and you can, do it in ...

Draw straight lines across the study from each of the points, keeping them carefully parallel, and seeing to it that the horizon ...