The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-20
PAINTINGS AT 10 CENTS EACH.
Done by Lightning Artist who Can Turn
Out Three In Five Minutes.

PAINTINGS At 10 CENTS EACH.
Done by Lightning Artist VINE Can Turn
out Three in Five Minutes.
Man In the show window painting
pictures, crowd outside looking on
card In the window Offering oil paintings
at 10 cents each. painted by the lightning
artist. I
At first thought It doesn't seem possi-
BILE that any sort Of painting can be pro-
duced and sold for 10 cents, but you think
otherwise when you see the artist work.
for he certainly is a lightning artist.
though he is enabled materially to expo
dite and 80 Increase his output by the
worry simple but at tho same time very
ingenious system he employs: he paints
pictures three at a time.
The pictures he paints are panels.
perhsps eighteen inches high by ten
inches wide. the painting being on sheets
of prepared cardboard. Three low piles
Of such sheets are stacked up evenly and
with their eide edges set snugly together
on q board.
When the sheets are thus laid @snugiy
together they present an unbroken paint
ing surface.
At the artists right and close to the
easel is a table upon which are spread
the paints, the colors most used being
nearest at hand. and upon this table the
artist keeps his brushes.
The artist picks up a big brush from
the table, dips it in a pile Of paint and
turning to the easel sweeps the brush
from side to side clean across the upper
part Of the sheets nailed on the. board,
and 90 with half q dozen strokes paints
In the sky on all three pictures at once;
and then with a little more paint on
the brush. II these are to be pictures
with water In the foreground, he paints
In tho weter. on the bottom 81 the three
sheets in like A mighty saving
OF time there; he has painted In two.
leading features in three pictures with q
dozen strokes Of the brush, and this
without taking the brush OF the canvas
more than n
Then YOU sec him pick UP another
brush from the table and touch It to the
grcen paint on the table palette end
make with this brush just ono jab. Just
one. at about the middle Of each sheet.
lowing on each where he has thus touched
1t o generous patch Of green. You wonder
what this lie for, but you don't have to
wonder long.
Maybe next, II there are to te rocks
In these pictures. tho artist, with another
brush. paints In the rocks. brown. Half
a dozen sweeps OF the brown brush or
less on zach picture and tho rocks grow
into place under your cyo3. though with
perhaps q different arrangement Of them
In each picture, on one siac in M picture.
on another sioe In another-which gives
variety; but one taxes no more time
than the other and they are all painted
in one after another in quiox' succession
with the same brush.
Then you may see him, with another,
eienoerer brush. throw in DO quickly that
you scarcely follow him streaks Of paint
betw cen the rocks and those eplashes Of
green. The streaks are tho trunAs n
branches of trees OF which tho green
patches are now the foliage, and then
in a %twinkling, IN the same way, hs puts
In tho tree trunks in the other two pic
lures, bringing the treos into being.
Sometimes, II he has the right brush
in his hand. he will paint the trunk and
branches Of the trees first, n q moment
later you may see there tross brought
into lie with the single dab Of the right
brush than sufices to bring each into full
foliage.
Sometimes he may paint boats in the
pictures, sails first, and you may be sur
prised at that; but half q minute or O.
minute later, with another, brush and
with a single touch for each, he may paint
Perhaps you zee him paint on each can-
a In brown paint an obtuse angle
with It's point up, and you wonder what
that means. but O moment later with
another brush you zee him painting
under these angles vertical lines that make
walls and with single touches you see him
With a single touch on zach picture,
skipping from house to house, he puts Q
chimney on each. and likewise with
touch OF another color o. each brings
smoke from the chimney.
The point Of 1t all Ia the great economy
Of time made ns n,I possible s * br PAINTING tim, thre =
each Get painted at the same time are prao-
tically similar. because that Is the most
expeditious way In which they can be
produced; but in one set after another
the artist produces different views-lake |
views, Waterfalls. mountain views-pic- |
lures in great variety.
When ne has finished a lot Of three
he simply removes them from the pins
by which the sheets were held to the
board and there below are the surfaces
of three more sheets. In place and all
ready to be painted on.
AND now tOuk uoo1 ~ thh6 016 8ItIEJ
to paint three pictures like thisi Timed on
one lot he turned them out complete In
four minutes and q half. and while he was
never In a hurry he didn't waste any time;
worked steadily. but always calmly
and easily.
On the next lot Of three he consumed,
from start to finish. six minutes and q
half, but his time was broken in on by
Q saleswoman who handed into the window
to him from the store q picture that had
become marred, for repair. Holding this
in one hand and a paint brush
In the other the artist painted into IL o
new sky and new water at the foot Of the
In about q minute; 50 that the
time actually occupied In painting the
three pictures on the easel was about five
minutes and q half. Apparently 1t would
be q cinch for him 10 paint three pictures
In five minutes.
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