Saturday, October 29, 2011

Materials for permanent painting

A manual for manufacturers, art dealers, artists and collectors.

Author:
Maximilian Toch

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The Painter's Method's and Material's

The handling of pigments in oil, tempera, water-color & in mural painting, the preparation of grounds & canvas, & the prevention of discoloration, together with the theories of light & colour applied to the making of pictures.

Author: A. P. Laurie, 1926

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The Theory and Practice of Color

In this world we are surrounded by Color. Every object that we
see, of any kind, in any place, has Color. It is the one great distinguishing
factor which enables us to separate in our vision one
object from another.

Author: Bonnie E Snow, Hugo B. Froehlich, 1920

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The Elements 0f Drawing

it may perhaps be thought, that in prefacing a Manual of Drawing, I ought to expatiate on the reasons why drawing should be learned; but those reasons appear to me so many and so weighty, that I cannot quickly state or enforce them...

Author: John Ruskin

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Line and Form

...OUTLINE, one might say, is the Alpha and Omega of Art. It is the earliest mode of expression among primitive peoples, as it is with the individual child, and it has been cultivated for its power of characterization and expression, and as an ultimate test of draughtsmanship, by the most accomplished artists of all time...

Author: Walter Crane, 1914

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Sketching and Rendering in Pencil


AN ARTISTIC conception is susceptible of translation into graphic expression through a variety of media, but by a certain universality of custom, or perhaps more accurately of convenience, the familiar lead pencil has achieved a significance derived from its immediate association with all forms of pictorial delineation...

Author: Arthur Leighton Guptill, 1922

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The Art of Caricaturing

A Series of Lessons Covering All Branches of the Art of Caricaturing

In the writing and illustrating of this book my aim has been to produce a comprehensive and concise treatise on the art of caricaturing. It has been made as brief as is consistent with clearness and complete' ness..

Author:
By Smith, 1941

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Line: an Art study

What, after all, is drawing but this the shortest line between the two points of an infinity withheld from our comprehension ? A short cut that the artist takes, while the mathematician goes round? Through and beyond lines, algebraic symbols, signs and formulae, it is the artist's trade..

Author:
Edmund Joseph Sullivan, 1922

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The Art of Drawing in lead Pencil

..Many people now concede the claim that it is actually possible to suggest "a sense of colou " in a "black and white" drawing, and it is hoped that the notes in Chapter IX may at least convey to the student those principles upon which the claim is based...

Author:
Jasper Salwey, 1921

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DRAWING FOR ART STUDENTS AND ILLUSTRATORS

..it becomes necessary to insist upon the importance of draughtsmanship in the classical sense, as understood by Holbein, Velasquez, Ingres, Menzel, and Degas. This technical power or faculty, call it what we will, is not a conjuring trick, a mere sleight-of-hand to be learned as a series of "tips," but must be acquired, if at all, by severe training...

Author: Allen W. Seaby, 1921

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Trees and Tree Drawing


Here it is purposed to deal with trees only, and it should at once be pointed out that trees have an anatomy, individual and class characteristics, limits to their areas of growth and to their endurance of certain conditions and changes of appearance under the influences of season, situation, and climate. As the figure painter studies the nude that he may be able to paint the costumed figure, as he must know the figure within the clothes, so should the landscape painter study the naked tree in winter, that he may be able to paint it rightly in its summer dress of foliage

Author:
Edward C Clifford, 1921

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