By Gloria Pat
Книга по вышивке крестом с небольшими схемами новогодней и рождественской тематики.
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All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle. Make certain they are clean and the bristles well-shaped. Have your palette set up beforehand with plenty of fresh paint. Make sure your turpentine, mineral spirits (or water · if you are a watercolorist), are clean and ample. Have plenty of rags or paper towels handy. See that your easel is sturdy, and if you are outdoors, well-anchored. When all systems are ready, relax, take a deep breath, and approach your canvas as you would your lover or a sumptuous meal.
I can do or undo anything, which is why I like oil paint. One of its many advantages is that mistakes need not be permanent. It has a built-in safety factor. Nothing is ever unfixable. The worst possible blunder can be undone. A careful swipe with my palette knife will erase my worst sins. I can go back and change my squeaky little lines into whatever I wish. I can also paint over them without misgivings-which makes the best sense since that is my intention in the first place. The sole purpose of any preliminary work I do (work that will likely be covered by ensuing paint), is to help me in the course of finishing by providing information about where things will go, how light or dark those things will be, and what their shapes and colors are.
That the EDGES of color shapes have appropriate softness or hardness. WHAT YOU SEE AND WHAT YOU KNOW Theoretically, Direct painting demands no special knowledge of a subj ect other than its visual characteristics. Carolus-Duran, Sargent's teacher, felt it was unnecessary to have any familiarity with a subject. According to him, a painter merely needed a trained eye. Sargent himself went even further, saying that artists should not show how much they know about their subject, and better still, should know nothing whatever about the nature of what they are painting.