 | James Northcote - Art - 1819 - 388 pages
...skreen with red or yellow colour on it, to reflect the light on the shaded part of the sitter's face." " Avoid the chalk, the brick-dust, and the charcoal, and think on a pearl and a ripe peach." " Avoid long continued lines in the eyes, and too many sharp ones." Notwithstanding that Reynolds,... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 726 pages
...skreen with red or yellow colour on it, to reflect the light on the shaded part of the sitter's face. " Avoid the chalk, the brick-dust, and the charcoal ; and think on a pearl and a ripe peach. " Avoid long-continued lines in the eyes, and too many sharp ones. " Take care to give your figure... | |
 | Jean-François-Léonor Mérimée - Mural painting and decoration - 1839 - 440 pages
...yellow colour on it, to reflect the light on the sitter's face. " Avoid the chalk, the brick dust, and the charcoal, and think on a pearl, and a ripe peach. " Avoid long continued lines in the eyes, and too many sharp ones. " Take care to give your figure... | |
 | 1859 - 358 pages
...at best, but endeavour to reproduce. In speaking of portrait painting, Sir Joshua Reynolds Bays, " avoid the chalk, the brickdust, and the charcoal, and think on a pearl and a ripe peach." It would liave been better, with all due deference to so great an authority, if he had said " think of the natural... | |
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Avoid the chalk, the brick-dust, and the charcoal, and think on a pearl and a ripe peach. 