Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-06-02

pedestal and that the light entering
the window Is ,all the illumination he
requires for HE portraits
Up 90 this time YOU have not had an
opportunity to see the cellar artist hlu-
self no ala and have 10 gather your
impressions from his voice which cone
vrys "a vague notion that its owner d.
slightly deaf Tor be speaks iu the
measured monotone OF one listening Co.
his own words. and measuring their
sound. Charles Lamb mourue1 the days
before the invention OF artificial Hight
saying how wrctchedly joke must
have passed on when sou had to feel.
your ncighbors face 90 learn whether
he was smiling or not. and perhaps
the lack 90 conversation while sitters
are having their portraits painted has
put the cellar artist no "a disadvantage
50 far as DTS voice Is concerned. But
as his voice De- all you have io go by az
such am interview, % naturally sulnes
q greater Importance than 30 would UNI
der ordinary circumstance
FOR SEVEN YEARS.
81 have been closely studying this
method o. PAINTING far more than seven
years" said Keyworh RaIne 'euI
have come to tha conclusion that \al-
ss0uez Rembrandt. and other great lr-
lists of their school worked somewhat
after my system ! do not claim that
they also worked absolutely lu the dfrE
az I do, but ] do maintain that they
studied light values just as | am doc
Ing
II also claim 90 have ro-discoycr'i
the principle of the method of uollrus
employed by Titan, and taught To
Venice and Flanders centuries 60 bN
my method any painter can DO .31.
times the amount OF bis present work
iu half the time
But, perhaps your eyes have the 2c-
culiar eff Of seeing values in me
dark" / suggested.
Not al all. answered the collar
painter My eyes have been examined
by well-known specialists, and are iu''
the some as everyone eisr'a Auy1 la
could DO az ! ann doing but ~ wolN
take three years training. After th7i
time they would find how extraordini1-
ily easy ~ f,as 10 paint iu The dark. u
saves fatigue 10 the eyes by allowing
them To- take Bon proportion. and the an.
hculties OF composition Gar more easily
than when painting ln daylight ] paint
an my portraits in one-e.ghth the time
usually allotted
WHAT THE VOICE SAID.
"But the sluers themselyeS'-I s1g-
gested How DO society DANES lik'
the idea of This subterraueau studio
surely they object Go coming here af;eI
the luxurious apartments of other AR
tists?'
In fact. So is Just the opposite said
the voice 81 have been assured tim,
and again that they Ike 90 sit in iht
dark Nothing pleases society won '
more. After the Earlsh light Of noon
day. after the blaze Of London drawing
rooms and studios they come here and
say that the experience of sitting if
the dark Is an actual rest 90 theh
nerves I have painted many portraits
OF well known society women in ih'
dark. and they have 400 been delighted
with the work. as well as the sittlngs
I might mention the names OF Lady Isl
fan Boyd and her daughter Lady Mag
dalen Williams-Burkley Mrs. Fritz
Ponsonby. wife Of the private secretary
OF the king, and others. In every cas-.
my work has resulted in other commits
slons which after an, are the best test
Of approval / have recently spent tn'
entire winter al various country seat
and castles I'm Ireland. painting In th
dark portraits Of the nobility.
"Not only has the subdued light, o