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#17. 20x30 [[underlined with yellow pencil]] Lasl Eugl Luieu, single grey primed. [[/underlined]]    months ago soap-washed. now rubbed with [[nafta?]]. [[strikethrough]] Drawing in. [[/strikethrough]] then 1 coat of cremnitz white, one coat of zinc white. Left several weeks to dry. Scraped. Drawing in ink (Tusche.). - Sclue [[underlined with red pencil]] at Dover [[/underlined]] Oct 30-11 10AM South. brilliant rising sun  on suburb of yellow & blue houses, on yellow earth, orange tree, rosy mountains, pale blue sky. full size [[study?]] in cheap water colors on cheap paper, repeated overpainting: [[underlined]] Observation [[/underlined]] 1): I cannot deviate from the actual composition of the scene since all objects, their form, proportion, arrangement, the earth, trees, hills, as they are give it just that character and charm of feeling, enhanced by the side light of a clear Sun. Any change of composition or rearrangement of things or introducing other proper things would be merely in the aim to either increase the individual character of the scene or [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] to the effect of deviating from it; to substitute what? Hence the idea with regard to the objects of the scene is realistic; American; [[intime?]]. 2.) The more I overpaint the pure white, yellow, blue, rose, etc by either less pure spectrumlike colors or by effecting such through intermingling complementary (yellow and violet etc.) the less forceful is the colorite in its effect upon the sentiment. To reproduce the true colorite of the scene by the usual luminaristic or dutch method, and by adding textures thro' opaque, impasto, rugged pigment, means that I loose the special interest in it, since the momentary Sun light on it creates the sensation of far purer, broader, stronger colors with me. This effect or impression is certainly personal. It is a concerted action of mind, Sun, and the position of both, Sun, and eye, with regard to the scene, and of the view point of the scene itself. [[underlined]] Actual invention [[/underlined]] out of much experience may produce still stronger, simpler, finer motives. But I cannot change this or similar scenes. 
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