Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-04-28
MODELS AND PHOTOGRAPHS.
Aids to Artists In Their Work Of Making
Fine Paintings.

Aids to Artists In Their Work of Making
Fine Paintings.
@Where do you get your molelsIp
They come in here. That one
The artist pointed TO the picture Of a
very respectable old gentleman with full
beard. who was one Of the figures on the
canvas
That one has been model for years. II
want man OF different make he VIII
get him for me. He'll go out into the
parks bright and early in the morning and
seduce one of the idlers from his position
on one Of the benches"
"Wbat is the inducement|
"Two dollars a day, beginning at 10
o'clock in the morning or Whereabouts and
continuing until or o'clock in the after
noon. Yes, il is pretty tiresome work, es-
pecially for one out of physical condition.
do all that Is possible TO make the work
light. They rest frequently, outside the
long rest in the middle of the day. Then
the tedious and tiresome work is anchor
ated by devices like that The painter
pointed to half dozen ropes which fell
from bars that covered the studio near
the ceiling. II a model was wanted to
hold his arm out straight he could keep II
straight without much difficulty after
catching hold of the rope. BY using the
rope gun could be supported In one posi-
ton for some length of time with compare
tive ease, and in variety Of ways the
ropes were useful.
@How about the horses' Do you paint
from models thereY
ayes, indeed. have TO take the canvas
over to n stable near here, and hire horse
by the hour and man to hold him. 1t Is
difficult 10 get the brute into the position
want, but we get some approach to them,
and that has to serve. A man can hold up
horses leg in way that want, or bend
at the knee. IL isn't as satisfactory as
having chance to watch them out in the
fields, but it has TO do"
This hiring of models must be very ex-
pensive to painters who have many figures
in their paintings2"
at is so. This painting am working at
now has cost me In models already about
$50, and have about two weeks more
work on it. Drawing and painting from
the imagination is cheaper for the time.
but 1t is great deal dearer In the end.
Your figures will get to be very wooden.
htiS 10 bht tii1s US N-NNNSe
ingly,. and that is the instantaneous photo
graphs which are now made Of outdoor
scenes. They are very valuable and sug-
gestive. Nothing can take the place Of
nature, but when you haven't got nature
and can't get it they are certainly the next
best thing. There are several men who
make business, and I have no doubt
make money, selling these instantaneous
photographs to the artists Look here
The artist displayed with great deal of
enthusiasm an unmounted photograph Of
q regiment of cavalry in motion. The de-
tail Of the picture was surprising. Within
a few inches Of space was reproduced 100
or more men on horseback. The movement
OF the horses could be felt, and the whole
spirit of the scene was eloquent.
when you can get picture like that"
remarked the artist, II don't see what peo-
pie want of painting. Look at that group
of horses there II could reproduce that
on canvas / would make q sensation. -
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