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und Poporna dünner übergangen auf dem grauweissen Õlgrund ist nach 10 Tagen noch mit dem Messer schabbar, und der Fingernagel drückt ein. Wahrscheinlich weil er im dunkeln Schrank stand. Es ist unmöglich auf noch feuchten weichen weissen Grund eine Zeichnung mechanisch zu übertragen, weil das Wachs- or Pulverbestreute Papier am Weiss sitzen bleibt.

Sept. 12-11. Having backpainted 3 more canvasses 14x20 14x20 20x30 [[underlined in yellow]]white oil ground "Rangers" from Powell[[/underlined in yellow]] after cleaning the face first with turps then with naphta
(pure Alcohol does not combine with grease or poppy oil, but naphta mixes with either hence naphta, not Alcohol is a cleaning fluid)
I hurried [[underlined in red]]to Paterson[[/underlined in red]] to just find the scene again at a similar light, though the sun now stands lower. It looked not as fascinating as before, the sky being nearly white, and the lights not as strong on the buildings. I tried to fix the colors of the scene. Put the character of it, the lines of the [[strikethrough]]bui[[/strikethrough]] factories, chimneys, skylights, windows, angles of arrangement, large simple forground, distant hill are not less interesting, and remaining til the sun had set, when the mountain stood out in stronger blue color against the weak orangewhite sky and the factories assumed the local color of dirty red brick, red paint, blue slate roofs. The scene was a motif again. These grey red brick walls and chimneys, nearly grey or black, glow in the sunlight

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