50 SECRETS OF MAGIC CRAFTSMANSHIP
I enjoyed this book as if reading poetry, and because it’s too long to be copied and I don’t think I might find it online, I thought I might share with you the notes I’ve taken while reading it.
Those are dali’s secrets in becoming a painter, a master painter. The book title suggests 50 secrets, I wrote down the one I understood because they’re not listed:
Here I place the dedication of the book:
DEDICATION
“At the age of six I wanted to be Napoleon- and I wasn’t.
At the age of fifteen I wanted to be Dali and I have been.
At the age of twenty-five I wanted to become the most sensational painter in the world and I achieved it.
At thirty-five I wanted to affirm my life by success and I attained it.
Now at forty-five I want to paint a masterpiece and to save Modern Art from chaos and laziness. I will succeed! This book is consecrated to this crusade and I dedicate it to all the young, who have faith in painting.”
And now I quote the first paragraph from the first chapter of the book which are by the way five:
“The ear of Van Gogh, the left hand of Dali and the foot of Cezanne-modern painters, house painters and the ancients- What is a well painted picture?- Definition of painting- Advice to the young art student to contemplate philosophically the azure of an absolutely cloudless sky, preferably in a Mediterranean country- Comparison of the head of the painter to an oil lamp which illuminates all realms of knowledge.”
And here comes the secrets as much as I can squeeze them:
1. You need five brushes to paint: Flat Square Brush, Round Short Brush, Fan Brush, Long Thin Brush and Stipple Brush.
2. Sound sleep is recommended before starting any work.
3. When you paint always think of something else.
4. At the same time paint to a certain idea.
5. When you prevent yourself from doing and force yourself to do, the dream will do.
6. Some elements in nature have sympathy for each other, others have antipathy.
7. Everything the eye sees is constantly formed by everything this eye has seen before.
8. Train yourself to be able to construct what you want of image in your eyes.
9. Plant olive and myrtle around you.
10. Avoid radical colors like greens, snows and tropicals.
11. Remain chaste during the inspiration and conception of the painting.
12. Mark your work before hand on the calendar.
13. Most important work should be done in six days.
14. The greatest enemy of a masterpiece is fantasy.
15. You must know when your painting is finished, because over working it will destroy it.
16. After each painting session observe your painting with and without a mirror.
17. Understand the form of olive to understand the woman face.
18. Spider is the painter friend from whom he is inspired.
19. Learn to paint long before you draw.
20. Start with a monochromatic wash then add colors.
21. The first form of art you should be familiar with is Architecture.
22. Music is harmful to painting.
23. When you want to copy a picture trace it.
24. Learn to draw from life first, begin with plaster models before real ones.
25. When drawing try to reduce what you see to forms.
26. To excute a foreshortrning in great truth, project unusual shadows of your model.
27. For drawing or copying your drawing, use a mixture of Zinc White and Burnt Umber.
28. To produce the best result, cover your painting surface with a homogenous and continuous coat of paint the least thickness possible.
29. After each session of painting examine your work under an oblique light, to see your progress.
30. The best two colors ever are Black and White.
31. Practice on producing monochromatic paintings using Black and White only.
32. For mixing shadows use Naples Yellow.
33. The color Black D’argent dries quickly, Zinc White should be added as a final coating.
34. Blacks are the slowest to dry and most transparent.
35. The tone of Ivory Black is Ivory, the tone of Blue Black is with a Blue tinge.
36. Silver White is warm and Zinc White is icy.
37. Let painting dry naturally.
38. Ivory Black is for under painting, Blue Black is used to cover it.
39. If you are a classic painter, place the colors in your pallet in the same order each time.
40. Burnt Umber is the fastest color to dry.
41. It is advisable to use Burnt Sienna.
42. For under painting use the most transparent colors, Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine Blue.
43. To paint sea foam use a color soaked sponge.
44. When painting, from time to time look at the same color that is different from your painting colors, so as to refresh and strike your eyes.
45. Every new over painting must be more liquid.
46. You will never succeed in making gold with painting.
47. If you are drawing two figures, male and female, always start with the male or else the easier.
48. When you paint a face start with the lightest parts of the chin, after that the cheeks and forehead, then the nose, the mouth, the ears and finally the eyes.
49. Some recommended colors for Artist’s painting: Burnt Sienna, Black D’argent, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Light Olive Green, Blue Black, Ivory Black and Indian Red.
50. “Nothing of all this will yet be of much avail! For the last secret of this book is that before all else it is absolutely necessary that at the moment when you sit down before your easel to paint you picture, your “painter’s hand” be guided by an angel.”
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