Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821-1889 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 109
call too closely the form of the drawing or its frame are unpleasant.Thus straight lines running either perpendicularly through the picture, or parallelto the bottom, are offensive to the eye. Almost every horizon is broken by someundulation, and shadows flit across objects of great height. In… … From a Sketch by Re\. J. L. Petit. Fig. 7. ARTIFICIAL SHAPES OF LIGHT AND SHADE. Some artists usually contrived that the main light or shadow of their picturesshould fall into the form of a wedge from one of the sides, and sometimes thiswedge was inclined so as to point somewhat downwards.…
Landscape painting · Watercolor painting
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