Art recreations : being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting ... moss work, papier mache ... wax work, shell work ... enamel painting, diaphanie ... illuminating &c. : with valuable receipts for preparing materials (1859)
Urbino, L. B. (Levina Buoncuore), -1888, Day, Henry · Boston : S.W. Tilton ; · leaf 59
49 DRAWING. and cause the same tree to be in the extreme distance, the atmospheric perspective softens the general tone, and makes it uniform. Linear perspective gives us the cause of the diminution of size, but in addition to that we have … diminution of tone, a fading out as it were, owing in part to the intervention of the atmosphere. In representing this with the lead pencil, the form should be strictly ob- served, and an even, pale, misty tone obtained. But in 5 %
Decorative arts · Decoration and ornament
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