Color in Sketching and Rendering

The scope of this volume is limited mainly to a consideration of the practical uses of color in pigment form-and particularly water color-in what is commonly termed representative painting. The content of Part I is suggested by its title "The Elements of Water Color Painting." The aim has been to give a thorough grounding in such fundamentals of the art as the beginner much master before he can hope for any real progress, plus an adequate consideration of many advanced essentials. It is presupposed that the reader of these first chapters knows nothing of the subject beyond the elements of freehand sketching. Both text and illustration have therefore been mad unusually complete, with particular emphasis on those matters which repeatedly prove stumbling blocks to the beginner. His questions are anticipated; he is told why one thing is done and another not don; how this or that effect can be obtained; how errors can be corrected and pitfalls escaped. Dogmatism is avoided, ho ever, the reader being urged to test all points by means of well organized experiment suggested for the purpose. In Part II, entitled “Architectural Rendering in Color,” the content changes somewhat, for here both text and illustration take on a decidedly architectural flavor, the primary aim being to help in the solution of such problems of color representation as are peculiar to the architect and such of his professional relatives as the landscape architect and the interior decorator. Not only do these individuals or their assistants make numerous preliminary studies, details of ornament, color schemes for building materials, etc. but they are frequently faced with the difficult task of picturing on paper entire projects which are as yet merely proposed buildings singly or in groups, landscape settings, interiors and the like. Each of these projects, no matter how visionary, must be drawn so definitely and convincingly that the client or any layman concerned can see, before a contract is let or a tool lifted, exactly such drawings are to be submitted to prospective clients, perhaps competitively, they must be unusually attractive as well.