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 52
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… … diminution of tone, a fading out as it were, owing in partto the intervention of the atmosphere. In representingthis with the lead pencil, the form should be strictly ob-served, and an even, pale, misty tone obtained. But in 50 DRAWING. the foreground, the high lights must be strictly kept, andthe…
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