Art recreations; being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting, crayon drawing and painting, painting on ground glass, Grecian painting, antique painting, oriental painting, sign painting, theorem painting, ferneries, moss work, papier mache, cone work, feather flowers, potichomanie, leather work, hair work, taxidermy, gilding and bronzing, plaster work, decalcomanie, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, imitation of pearl, the aquqrium, sealing-wax painting, panorama painting, coloring photographs, enamel painting, etc. (1873)
Day, Henry · Boston, Shepard & Gill · leaf 51
FOLIAGE. When a tree is in the foreground the leaves are dis-tinctly seen; we can readily distinguish the form, and thelight and shade is in strong contrast; if we move our 48 DRAWING. position, and make the same tree appear in the middledistance, we can recognize the same tree, but the light and »… … shades are not so strong ; if we again remove our position, DRAWING. 49 and cause the same tree to be in the extreme distance, theatmospheric perspective softens the general tone, andmakes it uniform. Linear perspective gives us the causeof the diminution of size, but in addition to that we have…
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