The practice of water-colour painting . the artist does not feel that he hasreached the full effect that he desired. This method allows of reasonably rapid pro-duction, and by following it a fairly importantpainting can often be finished in a few days. Butwhen the preparatory work is taken into account,and the time expended upon the preliminarystudies is reckoned in, it is evident that Mr. Noblesworking processes entail a more than ordinaryamount of concentration and sustained effort. Atno moment in the progress of his painting can herelax his attention or handle his materials c
The practice of water-colour painting . the artist does not feel that he hasreached the full effect that he desired. This method allows of reasonably rapid pro-duction, and by following it a fairly importantpainting can often be finished in a few days. Butwhen the preparatory work is taken into account,and the time expended upon the preliminarystudies is reckoned in, it is evident that Mr. Noblesworking processes entail a more than ordinaryamount of concentration and sustained effort. Atno moment in the progress of his painting can herelax his attention or handle his materials chief essential for success is that every touch,every bit of drawing, every detail of form or colourshould be thought out beforehand, and the mannerin which it will help in the development of thewhole pictorial scheme should be fully begin a painting without having all the needfulstudies at hand would lead plainly to much con-fusion, but equally there would be confusion if any work were put into the painting which had ioo. Mwin .X,,/,/,; THE FARM YARD. MR. EDWIN NOBLE not a definite purpose, and which did not contributesomething to that completeness of representationthat he was striving to secure. The colours which Mr. Noble uses for generalwork are cobalt, French ultramarine, olivegreen, aureolin, yellow ochre, raw sienna, andlight red; and for brighter effects Chinesevermilion, madder lake, Antwerp blue, neutraltint, lemon yellow, Hookers green, No. 2, andoccasionally emerald green. He avoids Chinesewhite. 101
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