Color Studies and a Mexican Campaign (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...will be better. On this side, you see, I have a pile of turnips and a cabbage and a mackerel, and on this side a vase of roses and a glass globe with goldfish in it. The idea's capital--contrast and that sort of thing, you know. But somehow the picture don't seem to come together. I've changed the composition two or three times, but I don't seem to get what I want. I do wish that you'd give me your advice about it, what you honestly think, you know." "To tell the truth, Roberson, the way you've got it now--the things all jumbled together in a heap like that--it looks a good deal like nine-pins after the first ball has cracked into 'em." "No? does it though? Why, I do believe you're right, Mauve. I've been thinking myself that perhaps the composition was too scattery. And yet I think there's a good effect in the way that they rise gradually from this one turnip here on the left to the roses on the right. I can't paint out those roses again, they're too good--don't you think that they're better than Lambdin's? I do. But I might move the globe of goldfish over to the left, and then have the mackerel and the vegetables along in a row between it and the roses. How do you think that would do? I've got to do something in a hurry, for the mackerel is beginning to smell horribly. I hope you don't find it very bad. I put carbolic acid over it this morning. Oh dear Mauve. I don't seem to be able to do anything in these days; now--now," and Roberson's voice became lower and had a tone of awe in it, "that I no longer have a Guide, you know." "That's just what I came to speak to you about, Roberson." "Goodness gracious Mauve, you don't mean to say that you have--that you have found a Medium?" exclaimed Roberson in ...