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Title: Drawing and painting self-taught
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cross, Anson K. (Anson Kent), 1862-1944 Cross, Evelyn F. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Drawing Painting
Publisher: Winthrop, Mass., A. K. Cross
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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lens held at such a distance from the subject and your eyethat the subject fills the lens. Look at the lens and not through it,as if the blurred image were painted on the lens; and memorizethe forms and colors so that you could work from memory. Be-sides studying the effect of the entire group by use of one lens,it is well to move near enough to the group to be able to makeeach object in the group fill the entire lens, that you may separatethe mass of light from the mass of shadow. Any part of anyobject may be made to fill the lens that its color may be seen.After this careful study of the effect, begin the painting, usingthe wet method or the dry method as you prefer. 104. The Wet Method.—Thoroughly soak the paper and apiece of blotting-paper of the same size. Place these papers upona sheet of glass with the blotter next the glass, and hold thepapers on the glass by four rubber bands over their edges. Adrawing board having oil-cloth under the blotter may take theplace of the glass.
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PAINTING SELF-TAUGHT 59 Make the drawing with the point of a brush wet enough totake up a little color. Then with the side of the brush lay in themasses of color. Use barely water enough to hold the color anddeposit it where it is wanted. Too much water will flow thecolor outside its proper limits.. Keep the paper always wet enough to enable you to add morecolor and to take off color with a dry blotter, or dry brush, or acloth. If the paper dries, spray clear water upon it with anatomizer, and continue to perfect the drawing and the coloruntil a satisfactory effect is gained. When this is done allow thepaper to dry as you add the finishing touches of details, sincethese need to be sharp in outline. This is the Dutch method andis capable of splendid effects that are artistic and strong at thesame time. Do not use Chinese white or any body colors on suchdrawings. 105. The Dry Method.—There are so many different waysof using water-colors on paper that is dry or moistened by awash of wa

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