Hawthorne on Painting by Charles W. Hawthorne

Author:Charles W. Hawthorne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Published: 2013-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

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Old fashioned white china wash basin.

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White to be beautiful must have a contrast. An old white plate against sympathetic background is exquisitely beautiful, but be very careful when white appears to go warm—you lose its power. It will help you if you keep a part of it pure white.

Put variety in white.

Watch out for grays. Paint them, don’t depend on the color of the canvas.

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Get a dishpan in a quiet light, and put some dull red near it. Then go at it with a palette knife. It helps you to see the subject as spots of color—it is a clumsy tool, and a new way of working, making you too clumsy to put in details, forcing you to concentrate on the big spots. There is something noble about being able to paint a dishpan that anyone would be glad to hang in a drawing room.

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