Ladies' manual of art : or, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel and crayon drawing, taxidermy, etc (1887)
Philadelphia : American Mutual Library Association · leaf 45
lat tints of the sky and distances. The difference in the crayons used in portrait and those inlandscape painting is, that the latter is much harder, which isessential, as will be seen when applied to the paper. The breadthsof the composition are not laid by working with the point of thecrayon, but… … ness ofthe tint isderivedfrom thehardnessof thecrayon,which isbittenby thesurface ofthe paper,andleaveson it aquantity This tint is rubbed vigorously with the fingers, soas to work the colors well with the texture of the paper; as theoperation leaves but little color these tintings are repeated…
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