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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... his work and by the extensive knowledge he displays of the behaviour of the sea under different conditions of weather. He has a thorough understanding of wave movement and of the way in which wave forms are affected by tidal action and by the force of the wind, and he appreciates fully the manner in which the colour of the sea is determined by varieties of illumination and aerial effect. His pictures, therefore, deserve to be closely studied as admirable examples of thoughtful expression, which carry conviction because they represent the conclusions at which he has arrived by prolonged investigation of his subject under all possible aspects. They are instructive, too, as illustrations of the appropriate application of technical processes. Mr. Ingram is an executant with a thorough command over practical details, and he has the confidence which comes from experience; his method of painting is direct, well-controlled, and free from mechanical tricks, and it brings him by the shortest road to the end at which he is aiming. In his out-of-door work it is simplified as much as possible because his sketches have always to be done against time, and therefore the quickest way of painting is the one that suits him best. He works on dry paper, lays in his colour at full strength, and uses any device of handling that answers his purpose at the moment. It is impossible, with such evanescent effects as he has to record, to wait to do things in any systematic fashion, but practice has enabled him to recognise by instinct what variation of method or what accident of touch will be most helpful in his effort to make his impression intelligible. When he is painting a picture indoors, he is, however, much more deliberate. For his more important subjects he
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The practice of water-colour painting; illustrated by the work of modern artists
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