The Painter in oil

the outer covering of the skull, and of necessity follows the curves of the skull; and there is a back part to the skull which y ...

Portraits Good Training. - I would not have you undertake to paint a portrait rashly. You should know what you are to expect. If ...

according to that. Make a drawing of the outlines in straight lines, which shall give only the main proportions of the head, nec ...

But you had better not bother with all these ways of painting. When you can work well in the simplest way, you will find yoursel ...

CHAPTER XXXI: LANDSCAPE FROM the usual rating of figures as the most important branch of painting, it would be natural to speak ...

Bright Pictures. - Whatever may be thought of the work of those painters who are called “impressionists,” it must be recognized ...

The pitch of daylight is one of these facts. Light and luminosity may not be qualities which appeal to your temperament. You may ...

See which are the most expressive lines in it. Get the swing and movement of those lines in the large; then study the more subtl ...

Structure. - Have your foreground details well understood in drawing and value. This does not require the drawing of leaf and tw ...

”Impressionism.” - It is not possible to speak of landscape and plein air without mention of the “Impressionists.” You should un ...

Now if you understand the scientific principle, and the practical application and its result on canvas, you have in your hands o ...

Color of Contour. - An important thing for you to look for and to study is the color of contours. You will not find it easy; not ...

Diffused Light. - Much of the characteristic quality of out-door light is the result of the diffusion of light due to both the r ...

Short Sittings. - This characteristic, and the steady change of position of the sun and its effects on all the objects which are ...

Haystacks In Sunshine, by Claude Monet The Race Track, by Edgar Degas ...

CHAPTER XXXII: MARINES ALL that has been said on landscape painting applies to marines. You have the same open-air feeling and v ...

There is never a recurrence of the same thing either in exact form or color, but fix your eyes on one place, and over and over a ...

its own peculiar proportions, and its own peculiar arrangement of spar and rigging. Whether you are complete or not in the detai ...

Milton Dictating “Paradise Lost”, by Munkacsy Shepardess Spinning, by J.F. Millet ...

CHAPTER XXXIII: FIGURES The broadest classification of figure pictures is to consider them as of two kinds, - those painted in a ...