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The elements of drawing in three letters to beginners (1895)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London : George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington · leaf 238

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206 THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING, [letter hi. as much as possible to these, and to get more complicated colours, either by putting the third over the first blended tint, or by putting the third into its interstices. Nothing but watchful practice will teach you the effects that colours have on each other… … Fig. 29. the principal combinations, place yourself at a window which the sun does not shine in at, commanding some simple piece of landscape: outline this landscape roughly ; then take a piece of white cardboard, cut out a hole in it about the size of a large pea ; and supposing R is the room, a d…

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