for really interesting paints. But I hanker after my Intense Blue. It cost me two shillings.
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It appears (I quote from my lesson) that trees are not green. They are really Vandyke Brown and Yellow Ochre and Burnt Sienna and Cobalt Blue. I must verify this.
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There is a thing called the Essential Characteristic which resides in every object and distinguishes it from everything else. Seize that, and nobody can mistake what you have drawn, say a cathedral, for what you have not drawn, say an orange. There is therefore something in a cathedral which is not in an orange, and something in an orange which is not in a cathedral. If these things be discovered and properly drawn there is no chance of your cathedral, however round and yellow, being taken for an orange, nor your orange, let it be as Gothic as it pleases, being admired as a cathedral. The task which I must set myself is to find these Essential Characteristics.
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After trial (upon white poplars and elms) I make this assertion. Oranges and Cathedrals are undistinguishable from each other. It has been well said that the study of art opens the eyes to
