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[[underlined with red pencil]] #12. [[/underlined]] 14x20 [[underlined with yellow pencil]] Ranger Canvas [[insert in pencil]] oil-W.L. [[underlined]] ground [[/underlined]] [[/insert]] white thin priming, naphta washed [[/underlined]] only, back L-oil & White Lead 1 coat.-- [[underlined with red pencil]] Old red barn at Sheepshead [[/underlined]] Bay.-- I oiled in (L, Poppy + Amber) the ground, then drew up the scene from sketch, with red Crayon pencil; then underpainted in Mussini Z White, and ultram; no oil; then painted in dots; also Har Red, Vir, Lem Y of WN, Cerul, Cadm Or, Cadm Aur[or]; no oil added, excepting to the Sp Red and Aurora;-- 
finished, wet in wet, adding cob viol, next day; used a little Oil + amber as medium with nearly all colors. ZWh only.
[[underlined]] Pure color, without white in small masses, lines or dots, does not appear as color at a distance but only as [[/underlined]] a tone of light, (-if the [[strikethrough]] color [[/strikethrough]] patches or dots of one color are separated by other colors, Pointillism). Hence: a [[underlined]] Colorite requires large color masses. [[/underlined]] Again: Color too much broken by white or black or mixtures of colors acts as light, shadow, grey, air, dust etc but not as color hence those [[underlined]] masses of colorite must be pure color, within the perceptible range [[/underlined]] or scale. [[underlined]] Colorite is pictorial, idealistic; all black - white - grey [[/underlined]] addition to color, in order to render natural phenomena instead of mental more convincingly is [[underlined]] unpictorial The painter must show the truth of his mind, not of things or nature. [[/underlined]]
Oct 28-29 I went to Patterson, with Robert, and Dover, walking back to [[Brouton?]] on a most beautifully clear sunny Sunday, sketching a score of scenes. The brilliancy of the Sunlight, in the morning, on house gables, the contrast with the shadows of roofs, walls, on ground;

[[in pencil]] (89 [[/in pencil]]