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Title: The theory and practice of landscape painting in water-colours. Illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and numerous woodcuts
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Barnard, George, 1807-1890
Subjects: Landscape painting Watercolor painting
Publisher: London : George Routledge & Sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ery closely the natural resultof falling rain, obscuring the forms and colours. It is advisable to use thecolours full and flowing freely, as they have in this state more the effect ofthe wetted earth and glistening herbage. Rain, however general it may bein the western and mountainous parts of our island, is more picturesquewhen shown in partial showers: in this condition the artist finds it a usefulincident in veiling or altering the form or tone of mountains otherwise heavy;for while it conceals some of the parts, it may cause others, like the juttingcrag or near shoulder of a mountain, to separate into much finer forms.We have in recollection the difficulty we found in bringing Ben Cruchanwell into a sketch of Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, without the assistanceof a welcome shower.) When we see a dark lowering cloud commencing tofall in rain, the descending drops will cause the part from which it is fallingto be greyer and lighter than the other parts, but still it will appear like a
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PICTORIAL PHENOMENA OF NATURE. 239 dark veil on the sky or lighter clouds behind ; but when coming before astill darker object, such as a mountain under shadow of a heavy cloud, itwill be lighter again. Something like this may be noticed even in towns,by watching the large rain-drops or snow-flakes as they descend; lookingup, they relieve dark against the sky, but against the darker houses theyappear light. Sometimes a light shower may be seen falling from a cloud, but beentirely dissipated before reaching the earth ; and not always falling perpen-dicularly, but sloped by the direction of the wind. Heavy rain does notobscure the distance so much as either mists, fogs, or steam. Steam is par-ticularly dense, and casts a positive and intense shadow: one can observehow completely it shuts out light and distance by standing at a railway-station in heavy rain, and watching the steam of a departing train fill thenearest arch; the whole appears a dense opaque curtain, whUe the rain-dropsin c

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