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A guide to artist supplies available at the middle of the 19th century, and techniques. Particularly interesting for the explanation of the characteristics of various watercolors.
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A piece of soft calico, or the tip of the finger, may be used to soften the stumping.
Stumping is particularly suitable for figures of a large size; for these, soft leather stumps answer best; the hard stumps, which are made of cork, &c are for small drawings.
What's stumping chalk? I thought it might be carbon black, but he mentions lampblack on page 50. "Also, success in this mode of drawing, as in almost every other, requires considerable practice." What are the modes that don't require considerable practice? I'd like to try them.
DIY Crayolas
2--The advantages possessed by water colours are, a purity and lightness in the skies and distances,...they are free from the glossiness so unpleasant in oil pictures; they answer for framing as well, while, by their peculiar capability of being kept in a portfolio, they can lie in a small space secure from injury and easy of removal; the work dries rapidly; the materials are very portable...Their range of usefulness is therefore very great...
We take water colors for granted now. It's fun to travel back to when they were a radical new medium.
A picture would've told 1000 words. What did blue verditer look like? Sherwin-Williams' version doesn't look like a purple bright blue.
Interesting that he considers red lead "not safe," not because he's worried about lead poisoning but because he's worried about fugitive colors.
The principles and practice which have been explained, are calculated to develope the full powers of water colours; with the information which has been given respecting the properties of each colour, the student cannot find any difficulty in modifying them, when only a slight sketch, or a temporary object is desired.
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What an abrupt ending!
Beg to inform you that they have supplied the Trade with a NEW AND VERY SUPERIOR ARTICLE IN DRAWING PENCILS, To sell at 3d. each, and 2s,6d. per dozen....R.D. & R. have the honor of receiving the following Letters, which they trust will be taken as ample proof of the quality of these Pencils:--
"53, Blackett-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, July, 1845,
"Gentlemen--I have made use of your NEW PENCILS, and consider them a most desirable acquisition either to the Artist or to the Amateur. They work pleasantly, and the variety of tint which they are capable of producing renders them valuable in sketching.
"I am, gentlemen,
"Yours 's most truly,
"THOS. M. RRICHARDSON, Sen"
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