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seriously, enough, is the best key to make calm restful heads. A work above the ordinary. There are only a few in London, and if you go to Paris you must be most careful not to accept the teaching advice as a whole but to paint on these principles [[strike through]] I tell you of [[/strike through]]. Draw and paint and paint and draw. You must learn to acquire the faculty of dissecting all planes in a face and determining at once the greatest light and the greatest dark. Call white 1 and grade 2,341 dark which in a [[strike through]] for[[/strike through]] portrait is generally on the face. Until this is done easily (and it takes time) [[strike through]] and [[/strike through]] you should not leave off painting as 

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under those conditions did not look well. But he was encouraging. He told me that evidently I had a faculty for catching a likeness but my values were not exact or orderly enough. "No one in London can teach you these things and fun in Paris." He was continually quoting Carolus Duran. Even saying that he is the only man in Paris, adding that now he takes no pupils. He racked my backgrounds over the coals. Said my paints of Mr. Horton, the Dutch fisherman, were the best things I ever did. "The only thing that saves them or any work is the minute study of values, the different relations of tones no two of which should be alike, and this study which few take