 | James Elmes - Art - 1825 - 336 pages
...!" RUBENS' PROCESS OF COLOURING. [From hit Lessons an Painting.] " BEGIN," says this great master, " by painting in your shadows lightly, taking particular...care that no white is suffered to glide into them, it being the poison of a picture, except in the lights; if once your shadows are corrupted by the introduction... | |
 | George Field - Color - 1835 - 310 pages
...have also the high authority of Rubens, who in the following extract from his Lessons says, " Begin by painting in your shadows lightly, taking particular...introduction of this baneful colour, your tones will be no longer warm and transparent, but heavy and leady. It is not the same in the lights ; they may... | |
 | Sir Charles Lock Eastlake - Painting - 1847 - 622 pages
...accustomed to say, ' by painting your shadows thinly : be careful not to let white insinuate itself into them ; it is the poison of a picture except in the lights : if white be once allowed to dull the perfect transparency and golden warmth of your shadows, your colouring... | |
 | Laughton Osborn - Artists' materials - 1849 - 446 pages
...upon the attention of the student-artist. CHAPTER XIII. RUBENS' LESSON TO THE YOUNG ARTIST. " BEGIN by painting in your shadows lightly, taking particular care that no white be suffered to glide into them ; it is the poison of a picture, except in the lights ; if once your... | |
 | William Bell Scott - 1874 - 396 pages
...was accustomed to say, 'by painting your shadows thinly; be careful not to let white insinuate itself into them ; it is the poison of a picture except in the lights ; if white be once allowed to dull the perfect transparency and golden warmth of your shadows, your colours... | |
 | Henry Merritt - Artists - 1879 - 358 pages
...Rubens. Rubens describes the process of laying on colours which he himself practised, thus : — ' Begin by painting in your shadows lightly, taking particular...care that no white is suffered to glide into them : white is the poison of a picture, except in the lights ; if once your shadows are corrupted by the... | |
 | John Burnet - 1880 - 112 pages
...the same opinion. In one of his maxims he says, " Begin by painting in your shadows lightly, taking care that no white is suffered to glide into them...the poison of a picture except in the lights ; if ever your shadows are E corrupted by the introduction of this baneful colour, your tones will no longer... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 534 pages
...(where and what are they ?). ' Begin by painting in your shadows lightly, taking care that no white be suffered to glide into them — it is the poison of a picture except in the lights. If ever your shadows are corrupted by the introduc1 Mrs Wilkinson, his sister. tion of this baneful colour,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Authors, English - 1889 - 528 pages
...(where and what are they ?). ' Begin by painting in your shadows lightly, taking care that no white be suffered to glide into them — it is the poison of a picture except in the lights. If ever your shadows are corrupted by the introduc1 Mrs Wilkinson, his sister. tion of this baneful colour,... | |
 | 1892 - 488 pages
...by painting in your shadows lightly, taking care that no white is suffered to glide into them, for it is the poison of a picture except in the lights ; if ever your shadows are corrupted by the introduction of this baneful colour, your tones will no longer... | |
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Rubens' maxims (where and what are they ?) ' Begin by painting in your shadows lightly, taking care that no white be suffered to glide into them — it is the poison of a picture except in the lights. If ever your shadows are corrupted by the introduction... 
