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MIXED MEDIUMS

There are certain possible ways of combining water-colour with other mediums and of arriving by such combinations at technical effects which are quite interesting and perfectly legitimate. One of these mixed methods is that which was employed by the earliest water-colourists who produced the tinted drawings once so much in vogue for topographical illustration. These tinted drawings – carefully defined outlines filled in with flat washes of colour – were mechanical and conventional enough, but they had executive capabilities which have been recognised and developed by later artists. At the present time, indeed, there is much good work being done by painters who bring most agreeably the pen or pencil line into association with the water-colour wash, and who gain by this executive device a particular freshness of effect.

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