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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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ent. Every change from light to shadow which is easy for you to seemeans also a change in hue which is not so easy to see, but faith-ful use of the lenses will discover the rule that if the light side ofany object is warm the shadow side will appear cold, and if the lightside is cold the shadow side will be warm. It is evident that thestrongest effect of local color will not be seen in either the strong-est light or the deepest shadow, but between the two, and nearthe dividing line of light and shade. It is impossible to produce a vital effect without conforming tothis law of contrast between the masses. Understanding thelaw will aid you to see the changes from warm to cold whichappear on objects that are of one unvaried local color. 84. You must use your judgment in your use of the lens todetermine the effect of the first painting, for you can not followthe lens exactly if a detail, such as a painted design, comes ineither the mass of the light or the shadow. This detail will not ■
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PAINTING SELF-TAUGHT 49 be seen through the lens as design but will change the color andvalue of the mass in which it comes. An effect of this natureshould not be represented in the first painting, for the design mustbe put in later in its definite form. This can not be done if you havealready represented its value in a blurred form over the surface. 85. Then there are accidental effects of complementarycolors apparent when the lenses are used too long to study brightcolors. These arise in the same way as the purple images in thesky after you have looked at the setting sun, and they should notbe represented. 86. Other Aids to Vision.—Two small holes may be made ina card, or the fingers of each hand may form openings to isolateany two values or colors that are not too near each other to bethus compared. The finder, used by artists to study the com-position, will also aid in the matter of values and colcr. Insteadof one finder it is better to prepare two of the same size and tocover o

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