The Works of John Ruskin: The elements of drawing. The elements of perspective. Aratra penteliciJ. Wiley, 1889 |
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Page xvi
... picture , they would twist their capitals of columns and towers of churches about in the background in the most wanton way , wherever they liked the lines to go , provided only they left just perspective enough to please the public . In ...
... picture , they would twist their capitals of columns and towers of churches about in the background in the most wanton way , wherever they liked the lines to go , provided only they left just perspective enough to please the public . In ...
Page xvii
... picture to be vertical . It is good , in early practice , to accustom yourself to enclose your subject , before sketching it , with a ight frame of wood held upright before you ; it will show you what you may legitimately take into your ...
... picture to be vertical . It is good , in early practice , to accustom yourself to enclose your subject , before sketching it , with a ight frame of wood held upright before you ; it will show you what you may legitimately take into your ...
Page 43
... pictures without after touching . As you get more power , and can strike the colour more quickly down , you will be able to gradate in less compass ; ' beginning with a small quantity of colour , and adding a drop of water , instead of ...
... pictures without after touching . As you get more power , and can strike the colour more quickly down , you will be able to gradate in less compass ; ' beginning with a small quantity of colour , and adding a drop of water , instead of ...
Page 54
... picture which gives them merely darker shades of the colour of the light sides must assuredly be bad . Now , lay your hand flat on the white paper you are drawing on . You will see one side of each finger lighted , one side dark , and ...
... picture which gives them merely darker shades of the colour of the light sides must assuredly be bad . Now , lay your hand flat on the white paper you are drawing on . You will see one side of each finger lighted , one side dark , and ...
Page 65
... picture except on the extreme high lights ; even the piece of white paper , in your subject , must be toned slightly down , unless ( and there are a thousand chances to one against its being so ) it should all be turned so as fully to ...
... picture except on the extreme high lights ; even the piece of white paper , in your subject , must be toned slightly down , unless ( and there are a thousand chances to one against its being so ) it should all be turned so as fully to ...
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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...