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    A Course of Instructions on Landscape Painting in Oil, Water Color, Pastel Painting
    A Course of Instructions on Landscape Painting in Oil, Water Color, Pastel Painting
    A Course of Instructions on Landscape Painting in Oil, Water Color, Pastel Painting
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    A Course of Instructions on Landscape Painting in Oil, Water Color, Pastel Painting

    By D. M. Campana

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    This classic book offers a tutorial on landscape painting, and would be an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the art. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateDec 3, 2014
    ISBN9781447498957
    A Course of Instructions on Landscape Painting in Oil, Water Color, Pastel Painting

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      A Course of Instructions on Landscape Painting in Oil, Water Color, Pastel Painting - D. M. Campana

      Preface

      THE purpose of this small book is to teach art students right-hand facts on the painting of landscape.

      Having had long experience in this branch of art, I feel confident I can suggest certain rules and give advice that will help them in avoiding mistakes and eliminate many difficulties so common with beginners in all lines of work. A book of this kind contains many instructive suggestions, it leads toward the proper method of producing varied effects and is actually as compact and good as a book costing several times as much. While an art book cannot make an artist, it can, no doubt, help students in planning their compositions, teach them to differentiate between this method or the opposite method in producing certain effects. It gives a certain amount of art training which would require many months of practice to attain. Art has fundamental rules and students having started under the proper direction will learn continually by their experience, by observation of their own and even by the mistakes they are apt to make during their efforts at producing their pictures. If you only learn from this book how to attain a certain good effect, or how to varnish correctly your picture, or how to prevent cracking of colors, etc., your book will have repaid you for the small amount invested. Not only students need instruction books, but artists as well read large numbers of essays, books on art, etc. New ideas, new points of view on matters of technique, new individual opinions on old and modern art, make interesting books well read by artists already well established in the art world. Those new books prove educative and helpful to them. This small book contains individual ideas, but more than anything else it contains practical suggestions, given in a simple way, and easily followed by students. A good list of other books dealing on other special branches of art will be found toward the end of this book.

      D. M. CAMPANA

      NOTICE: This book gives instructions exclusively on painting of landscape and is well adapted for students already acquainted with the technique of color handling, mediums, brushes, canvasses, palettes, varnishes, etc. All these details are to be found in the book THE TEACHER OF OIL PAINTING, which book I advise my readers to peruse preparatory to either landscape, figure, flower and fruit paintings. It will save them much time and trouble as it is full of valuable information.

      MOONLIGHT SCENE

      The general coloring of a moonlight picture is in cold colors such as gray, blue gray, or greenish gray. Thaulow uses a dark bluish gray, Hartig uses a cold gray, and Fournier uses green gray, all beautiful and strong. As painting in colors from nature at night is deceiving, the best thing to do is to memorize the color. Make a number of sketches in monochrome, say black and white or in gray, so as to have the composition, the light and the shadow, the shape of the clouds, the water, the foliage effect, etc. At the same time you try to impress upon your memory a color that will better reproduce the moonlight effect that you have in front of you.

      THE TEACHER OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING

      Colors and Materials

      THE most popular pigments used to paint pictures today are oil colors, water colors and pastel colors. Some students feel a natural attraction for oil colors, others for water colors, and others for pastels, and I will attempt to explain what color is useful and its proper handling in order to attain good results in those three methods of paintings. I will begin by giving a few peculiarities about oil colors not very well known among students and artists.

      Lead white in oil color is liable to blacken your painting, especially when used in connection with Vermilion, Cadmium, Emerald or the Chrome colors. The cause being that these last colors contain sulphur and the combination will produce sulphide of lead, a hidden but sure power that will blacken your picture. It is safer to use Zinc white, or Flake white. The more experienced the artist, the more limited his palette. Zorn, a very strong artist, is said to use only four colors: Black, White, Vermilion, and Yellow Ochre, and his pictures are considered very good. Boiled oil of linseed is the medium for oil painting and care should be taken to use the oil in pure state, not the commercial oil mixed with litharge, as though litharge helps the oil in drying quicker, it is made of red lead, and lead affects the colors as mentioned above. As for varnishing a picture, it is necessary to have the colors thoroughly dry. Some artists say three months, some say six months or more, but in my opinion over two weeks are necessary for pictures with a thin coating of colors, six weeks for a picture covered with a second coating of colors, and three months is a necessary time for heavy colored paintings to dry so that the varnish may not cause cracking of the picture. The cracking is caused because oil and varnish dry at different rates of speed. Rubens varnished his picture with a very thick linseed oil, made thick by sun exposure. It required a month or more to dry but the result was astonishing as we may see from the brilliancy of his picture. A master says, As an artist is dependent upon the past, by what has been done up to this time in many generations, and by limited number of materials, it is evident that he must strive to see and study all of the past art that he can find, and to feed his mind constantly upon it. Old masters such as Raphael, Velasques, Titian, Tiepolo, etc., were sent as apprentices below ten years of age and studied their art as we study any other trade. They had to grind colors, cover the canvas, clear the studio, copy their teachers’ drawings, and finally help in sketching the teachers’ work. I wish to say also that in drying your paintings, proper results will be attained by drying them in the open air rather than drying them by artificial heat. Artificial heat is one of the causes for the cracking of the colors, the oil requiring considerable time for the evaporation, and a forced drying will make it shrink and eventually crack or wrinkle.

      Water colors, of course, have no handicap in this respect, because those colors dry within a few minutes. Pastel colors have no drying problem at all, as they are in powder form like chalk. A liquid (Fixatif) is sprayed over them when the picture is finished and this liquid dries at once. It holds the colors fast onto the paper. (Pastel pictures should be under glass.)

      If painting is entirely new to you and if you do not have the necessary materials needed in your art work, it will be advisable to purchase a variety of colors, brushes, etc., of which I give a list in this chapter. It is understood that you intend to paint landscapes and that the list found here would not be quite complete if you would wish to paint figure or portrait pictures or other subjects.

      Many concerns sell oil painting outfits, water color outfits, pastel outfits, etc., such outfits containing more or less colors but not altogether the shades you may possibly require for your pictures. For instance, an outfit may contain twelve colors, another fifteen, another twenty-four, etc., this latter of course being preferable for the larger number of shades it contains. It would be better, in your case, if you could purchase individual colors and other articles as you may need and make up your own outfits. It may cost a little more, but you would not have unnecessary things of no special use to you, and what you buy would always be useful in the different paintings you may undertake at a later time. Outfits that you purchase already made up must, of course, contain colors for general work, as they are purchased by students painting almost any subject, but for the landscape work, a special selection should be made as also special shades should be had for field pictures, marine, or snow pictures, etc. Different selections of brushes is also advisable in connection with painting of different nature and size of your work and the following list will, no doubt, help students in purchasing the proper articles and in this way facilitate their undertakings.

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