An introduction to perspective, dialogues between the author's children. To which is added, a compendium of genuine instruction in the art of drawing and painting [entitled Letters on drawing and painting].1815 |
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An introduction to perspective, dialogues between the author's children. To ... Charles Hayter Visualizzazione completa - 1813 |
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Anamorphosis aperture appear artist attention base line breadth brother centre chalk circle colour copy CORNELIUS VARLEY degree divide draw lines drawn edge effect Eliza endeavour Enneagon equal sides exactly explain feet figure foreshortening genius geometrical George give glass HAYTER height Hendecagon horizontal line idea inches inclined planes ivory John knowledge length level line light MADAM mark the point method nature object oblique observe opposite outline painter painting paper parallel parallel ruler parallelogram pencil perfect perpendicular line perspective picture Plate point of distance point of sight practical geometry principal visual ray proceed produce proper protractor Publish'd ray of sight reflection require Rhombus right angle roof rule scene Senior Military College shade sides and angles sister sketch square straight edge suppose surface tint touch trace transparent plane utmost vanishing points vellum whole width
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Pagina 157 - And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Pagina 163 - ... First draw a circle ; then, with the same opening of the compasses, set one foot on the circumferent line, and draw a second circle ; and again, with one foot of the compasses on the point where the two circles bisect, draw a third ; cover one whole circle with yellow, another with red, and another with blue (letting each dry before you lay the next) ; the colours intermixing by the equilateral intersection of the three circles, will produce green, orange, and purple ; and the central portion,...
Pagina 163 - By this diagram you will lave a certain proof of the colours which are most adapted to oppose each other, from which the knowledge of their harmonizing properties may be derived. You will find a primitive colour always opposite to a compound one ; as, BLUE will be opposite orange, RED opposite green, and YELLOW opposite purple; which must determine them to be Ilie natural oppositea: this is hitflily useful for a painter to understand.