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The practice of water-colour painting (1911)

Baldry, A. L. (Alfred Lys), 1858-1939 · London, Macmillan and co., limited [etc.] · leaf 173

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pleasant qualityof surface, and an agreeable blending of bothcolours and tones which is specially expressive ;and he also keeps his colour from that tendencytowards opacity which is apt to appear when thedark passages in a water-colour are brought up totheir full pitch by successive washes.… … X ■x- MR. ALFRED POWELL distinguishable. He keeps his pigments in a creamy consistency, moist enough to enable them to be laid easily on the paper, but not so wet that a touch will spread appreciably beyond the place that it is intended to occupy. What exactly should be the amount of water used in…

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