 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1090 pages
...painter could have thought of, making memoranda of the gradations of light and shade in the pictures, " and this without any attention to the subject, or to the drawing of the figures." On the other hand, we find him lavishing both attention and eulogy on the later Italian mannerists,... | |
 | John Burnet - Art - 1913 - 162 pages
...the same gradation of light and shade as the picture, leaving the white paper untouched to represent light, and this without any attention to the subject...few trials of this kind will be sufficient to give ihe method of their conduct in the management of their lights. After a few experiments I found the... | |
 | David Phillips - Art - 1997 - 260 pages
...a leaf of my pocket book and darkened every part of it in the same gradation of light and shade as the picture, leaving the white paper untouched to...light, and this without any attention to the subject... such a blotted paper held at a distance from the eye, will strike the spectator as something excellent... | |
 | 1827 - 646 pages
...same gradation of light and shade as the picture, leaving the ' white paper untouched to represent light, and this without ' any attention to the subject,...of their conduct in the management of their lights It • may be observed, likewise, what portion is strongly relieved, ' and how much is united with... | |
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When I observed an extraordinary effect of light and shade in any picture, I took a leaf of my pocket-book, and darkened every part of it in the same gradation of light and shade as the picture, leaving the white paper untouched to represent the light,... 
