The theory and practice of landscape painting in water-colours. Illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and numerous woodcuts (1871)
Barnard, George, 1807-1890 · London : George Routledge & Sons · leaf 101
eing at all timesnecessary to produce repose. After a little practice in composition, the student will become aware thatlines receding from the forepart or base line of the picture, assist the per-spective, and induce a true estimation of the distance of the objects; while direction of the lines in… … those parallel to itonly conduct theeye from side to side. A position therefore, if possi-ble, should be cho-sen, so as to avoidthese parallel lines;for the mind beingunconsciously in- Fig. 1. fiuenced by the ON COMPOSITION. 79 Any position in which the rats of a road rise perpendicularly from…
Landscape painting · Watercolor painting
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