The Painter in oil

The use of a lay figure will help you somewhat if you can get one which is true in proportion. It will not help you much in the ...

In the meantime, everything that you have knowledge enough to express well, you can express with the single figure. With the mod ...

Here is a composition which is an almost literal rendering of the movement and light and shade effect of a position quite accide ...

See that your sitter is in as comfortable a position as you can get him into, so that the pose can be held easily. Don’t attempt ...

Background. - Under the general title of background you may place everything which will come in as accessory to the figure, and ...

will apply here as well, for the light and color effect is naturally a part of the subject. The most practical lights are those ...

Study the subtleties of values of contours, and make your figure relieve by the contrast of value in mass rather than by the mod ...

CHAPTER XXXIV: PROCEDURE IN A PICTURE Some pictures, particularly those begun and finished in the open air, may be frankly comme ...

Studies. - After this there must be studies made for the drawing of the single figures, and for more exactness of line and actio ...

be used in completing the picture. But more commonly the ébouch is the first blocking-in painting of the picture, by means of wh ...

is all covered, so that the background effect is there, it is all that is needed as yet. The most important figures are to be pa ...

Scraping. - The seconds painting will be well dry before the third begins, especially if the paint be more rough and uneven than ...

oil of the last painting is absorbed by what is beneath it, and the dead haze is the result. You cannot paint on it without in s ...

CHAPTER XXXV: DIFFICULTIES OF BEGINNERS All painters have difficulty with their pictures, but the trouble with the beginner is t ...

definiteness of some marked object or effect. What is good as a “view” is apt to be the reverse of suitable for a picture. You w ...

On the other hand, if it is too small, its very size makes it significant. If it is a landscape, decide first to proportions of ...

blues and some secondaries it is well to have in tubes besides the regular outfit. Still even then, when you have gone beyond th ...

would make it right. For instance, Prussian blue and chrome yellow mixed will make a powerful green which you could hardly put a ...

When you first begin to work out-doors try to find a good solid shade in which the place your easel, and then try to paint up to ...