The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons, calculated to afford those who are unacquainted with the art, the means of acquiring a competent knowledge without the aid of a master : being the only work of the kind in which the principles of effect are explained in a clear, methodical, and at the same time familiar style (1827)
Smith, Thomas, watercolorist, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, publisher, Clowes, William, 1779-1847, printer · London : Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row · leaf 165
well contrasted by the sombrestillness of the dark rocks against which it beats, andin an opposite sense the broad light of the eveningsky is relieved by the small dark foliage of the trees onthe left-hand side. In the same way a mass of building which are inshade may be relieved and contrasted by… … 1 The strongest contrast to a light is by making thatlight the only light in the picture, all the rest being inshade. A square flat shade is best contrasted by any smallirregular lights, as in.Fig. 12, the squareness of the dark i CONTRAST OF COLOUR. 109 tomb is contrasted by the light leaves of…
Drawing · Watercolor painting · Color
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