There may be several starting-points; one might begin by blotting ink or charcoal upon paper, by copying the darks and lights from photographs of masterpieces, or by making scales.
Put in the darks last, being very careful that they are not too sharp-edged.
Choose a number of masterpieces, ancient and modern, and blot in the darks in broad flat tones.
When a luminous middle-gray is obtained, sketch in the darks with soft charcoal and take out the lights with bread or rubber; this effect is like a mezzotint, Nos.
Darks and lights in harmonic relations--this is Notan the second structural element of space-art; p.
THE SONG OF THE STARS From the final reach of the upper night To the nether darkswhere the comets die, From the outmost bourn of the reigns of light To the central gloom of the midmost sky, In our mazeful gyres we fly.
THE SONG OF A COMET A plummet of the changing universe, Far-cast, I flare Through gulfs the sun's uncharted orbits bind, And spaces bare That intermediate darks immerse By road of sun nor world confined.
Thy darks subdue All light that treads thee down a space, Exulting o'er thy deeps.
Now I can’t make up my mind if it requires more darksor not.
Fair hair is more difficult to paint than dark; I spoil mine by getting the darks too dark in it, so losing the fair colour of it, though I do think it is easier in oils than in water-colours.
But the best is when I glide from out them, Cross a step or two of dubious twilight, Come out on the other side, the novel Silent silver lights and darks undreamed of, Where I hush and bless myself with silence.
Paint the mass and the rotundity of it, and express most vaguely the forms of the accents, and of the darks which fall between the flowers, but get their values.
She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
Compare darks with the black, and the lights with the white, and make the picture compose in the opening as in a frame.
Into this painting, when it is dry, you may begin to paint with body color, beginning with the true color and value of the lights, and working down through the half darks into the darks.
In pictures of an early time the darks are thick and substantial, the lights thin.
The darks are laid on very thick, but the paint appears to have run into spots or streaks, as if it had been touched with something which had touched the surface.
And, as the aforesaid light is pure, so the darks will appear darker than they are.
Lo, spire on spire, Curl serpentwise wreathed columns to the top O' the roof, and hide themselves mysteriously Among the twinkling lights and darks that haunt Yon cornice!
These darks and lights he would have scratched in with the fastest lines he could, leaving no white paper but at the wet points of lustre; if he had had time, the wicker-work would have come afterwards.
Devote our skill to those half-tones which in reality mean the labour, pride, and test of the painter, even although it is the high lights and deep darks that finish the picture.
In your chalk drawings, separate the lights from the darks at once all over; then reinforce the darks slightly where absolutely necessary, and put your whole strength on the lights and their limits.
It is an admirable exercise to take a pale wash of color for all the shadows, never reinforcing it everywhere, but drawing the statue as if it were in far distance, making all the darks one flat pale tint.
This practice is also conducive to breadth, for tints of different hues may be interspersed both in the darks and lights, provided they are of equal strength with those adjoining them.
In this respect note the pictures of Whistler, a great master in matters of tone; his lights seldom approach anywhere near white, and, on the other hand, his darks never approach black in tone.
Millais has also got a raised quality of paint in hisdarks very similar to that of Bellini and many early painters.
Do not attempt the full range of tone at first, but keep the darks rather lighter and the lights darker than nature.
When the highest lights are low in tone, the darkest darks should be high in tone.
The darks are due to the charcoal lines of initial drawing showing through middle tone.
Also, the highest lights in nature are never without colour, and this will lower the tone; neither are the deepest darks colourless, and this will raise their tone.
Tone relationships are most sympathetic when the middle values of your scale only are used, that is to say, when the lights are low in tone and the darks high.
So with the shadows, the chalk is put on heavily in the darks and less heavily in the lighter shadows.
Not an absolutely plain surface, but one broken with some unobtrusive design or pattern in still darker darks and lighter lights than the general tone.
Moreover, throughout the rest of the composition these same lights and darks are echoed and re-echoed in constantly decreasing gradations.
The gray of this paper serves as the middle tone of the drawing, the different gradations of black in the coal giving the darks and the careful use of white chalks the high lights.
This process requires certain modifications to be made in the darks of the original drawing.
But the best is when I glide from out them, Cross a step or two of dubious twilight, Come out on the other side, the novel 195 Silent silver lights and darks undreamed of, Where I hush and bless myself with silence.
Accents of dark produce such snappiness as is commended by the publisher who esteems the brilliancy which a rapid interchange of lights and darks always yields, a sparkle, running through the whole and easily printed.
Drawings in outline upon tinted paper take on a surprising finish with a few darks added for shadow and the high lights touched in with chalk or Chinese white.
It was his technical peculiarity that he centralized his light and surrounded it bydarks as a foil.
And in this very feature he was one of the first men in Renaissance Italy to paint a picture for the purpose of weaving a scheme of lights and darks through a tapestry of rich colors.
Even the lights and darks are separated so as to give the strongest effect.
In the Cubists' scintillating succession of darks and lights, like a photographic negative of a Cezanne or an early Renoir, there is an unescapable feminine prettiness in which the twinkling of tone serves the same purpose as pretty colour.
The former's life work was largely a repetition of the lights and darks found in Courbet's earlier pictures.
In all his pictures one finds a charming rhythm of lights and darks and a slight comprehension of surface form.
The mere contrast of colour is happily employed in some of Guido's lighter pictures, but if intense darks had been opposed to his delicate carnations, their comparative whiteness would have been unpleasantly apparent.
All the dull-tissued dark with your luminous darks that emboss.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
