Essays on Painting

awake my memory loses hold of it. (Albrecht Dürer Four Books on
Proportion 1528)
CHOOSING A MEDIUM
Some mediums lend themselves better to the beginning painter.
Watercolour has definite advantages in that it is clean portable and comparatively
cheap but it needs a lot of experience and heart ache before any
facility is achieved. It is an unforgiving medium and requires skill and
experience to correct mistakes.
When I was young, artists materials were not excessively expensive, even
at that time tubes of artist quality were fairly affordable. Then however there
were many colours that were unreliable in permanence any many of them
could not be used together. Good quality watercolour paper was expensive
because it was all hand made. Cartridge paper was reasonably priced
although there was a special way of stretching it had to be used if a decent
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