The Works of John Ruskin: The elements of drawing. The elements of perspective. Aratra penteliciJ. Wiley, 1889 |
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... blue , or grey , or purple , as it happens to be , and observe how quietly and con- tinuously the gradation extends over the space in the window , of one or two feet square . Observe the shades on the outside and inside of a common ...
... blue , or grey , or purple , as it happens to be , and observe how quietly and con- tinuously the gradation extends over the space in the window , of one or two feet square . Observe the shades on the outside and inside of a common ...
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... blue , or grey , or dull white . A wholly grey or rainy day is the best for this practice . 2 You will see that all the boughs of the tree are dark against the sky . Consider them as so many dark rivers , to be laid down in a map with ...
... blue , or grey , or dull white . A wholly grey or rainy day is the best for this practice . 2 You will see that all the boughs of the tree are dark against the sky . Consider them as so many dark rivers , to be laid down in a map with ...
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... blue will have to be represented by a darker tint of grey than a pattern of yellow . And now it is both time for you to begin to learn the mechanical use of the brush , and necessary for you to do so in order to provide yourself with ...
... blue will have to be represented by a darker tint of grey than a pattern of yellow . And now it is both time for you to begin to learn the mechanical use of the brush , and necessary for you to do so in order to provide yourself with ...
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... blue . Dip the end of it in water so as to take up a drop , and rub it in a white saucer till you cannot rub much more , and the colour gets dark , thick , and oily - looking . Put two teaspoonfuls of water to the colour you have rubbed ...
... blue . Dip the end of it in water so as to take up a drop , and rub it in a white saucer till you cannot rub much more , and the colour gets dark , thick , and oily - looking . Put two teaspoonfuls of water to the colour you have rubbed ...
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... blue , and passes down into pure white paper at the end of your column , with a perfectly smooth gradation from one into the other . You will find at first that the paper gets mottled or wavy , instead of evenly gradated ; this is ...
... blue , and passes down into pure white paper at the end of your column , with a perfectly smooth gradation from one into the other . You will find at first that the paper gets mottled or wavy , instead of evenly gradated ; this is ...
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angles arch artists Athena bas-relief beautiful blue boughs brush character chiaroscuro circle clouds colour construction COROLLARY curve cutting the sight-line Dædalus dark delicate distance dividing-point draw edge engraving equal expression figure FIND THE VANISHING-POINT flat give given in position gradation Greek grey hand horizontal line HORIZONTAL PLANE Idolatry imitate inclined line Join kind leaf leaves LET A B light and shade line A B look masses measuring-line merely Nature never object observe outline painter painting paper Paul Veronese pencil Phidias picture piece Pindar plane plate polygonal position and magnitude practice Problem produce Prussian blue pyramid racter rectangle represent round sculpture seen shadow side sight-magnitude sight-point sketch square stone stone pine student surface things tint Titian touch tree true Turner vertical line Zeus
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Page 116 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave : the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame...
Page 153 - ... you will find in practice, that brilliancy of hue, and vigour of light, and even the aspect of transparency in shade, are essentially dependent on this character alone ; hardness, coldness, and opacity resulting far more from equality of colour than from nature of colour.
Page xi - I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love Nature, than teach the looking at Nature that they may learn to draw.
Page 188 - Now in art every colour has an opponent colour, which, if brought near it, will relieve it more completely than any other ; so, also, every form and line may be made more striking to the eye by an opponent form or line near them ; a curved line is set off by a straight...
Page viii - God, by which the heavens were of old, and the earth, standing out of the water and in the water...
Page 178 - Rivers in this way are just like wise men, who keep one side of their life for play and another for work ; and can be brilliant, and chattering, and transparent when they are at ease, and yet take deep counsel on the other side when they set themselves to the main purpose.
Page 167 - Thus a musician composes an air, by putting notes together in certain relations ; a poet composes a poem, by putting thoughts and words in pleasant order ; and a painter a picture, by putting thoughts, forms, and colours in pleasant order. In all these cases, observe, an intended unity must be the result of composition. A paviour cannot be said to compose the heap of stones which he empties from his cart, nor the sower the handful of seed which he scatters from his hand. It is the essence of composition...