Identifier: drawingpaintings00cros (find matches)
Title: Drawing and painting self-taught
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cross, Anson K. (Anson Kent), 1862-1944 Cross, Evelyn F. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Drawing Painting
Publisher: Winthrop, Mass., A. K. Cross
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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more quickly than by the use of formulas. At the end of each sitting clean your brushes, first in keroseneand then with soap and warm water. 120. The oil-colors put up for house painters use in poundcans are cheaper than tube colors and good enough for manypurposes when made by a reliable maker, and of an earthy nature.You can test these colors as explained in Section 89. French zincwhite in pound cans is also satisfactory and half as expensiveas the color in tubes. PAINTING IN PASTELS. 121. Pastels are made of color that is bound together in theform of a crayon by gum tragacanth. Each crayon makes itscolored mark just as the white chalk crayon makes its mark.It is evident that pastels can not be used on a smooth surface. You can make your own pastels readily and cheaply by followingdirections given in the book Letters to a Painter by Ostwald,translated by Morse. 122. Special pastel cardboard and canvas with a fine sandedsurface is made, but any paper with a rough surface will answer.
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Fig. 33.—From pencil painting by Anna M. Hathaway. PAINTING SELF-TAUGHT 67 A sheet of tinted crayon paper makes a cheap substitute forthe special papers, while oatmeal paper such as paper-hangersuse is cheaper still, and good enough for quick sketches. With pastels as with other mediums it is simply a matter ofgetting the right color in the right place, but as pastels are notas easy to mix as other colors, you may have a more extendedlist of colors. 123. Pastels may be blended to produce any desired colorby rubbing two or more crayons over the spot where this coloris needed, and then blending the different colors together withthe hand. This result may be obtained by the impressionistsmethod of separate strokes of the different colors placed besideeach other or one upon the other. Pastels are permanent when made of pure and permanentpigments, but the color is easily rubbed or shaken from the pic-ture, and should be protected under glass, or by fixing with aspecial fixatif for pastels

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