A manual of artistic colouring as applied to photographs

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Preface

How many persons, earnestly desiring to gratify their passionate love of Painting, and produce Pictures for their own delight and amusement, are compelled to lay down the brush with a reluctant sigh, because, ignorant of drawing, and without the necessary leisure for the laborious drudgery of the beginner, they cannot hope to produce works worthy of their own ambition, or their friends' respect I For such this little Work has been written and published.

I have written for the Photographer, also, by whom the Professional -Colourist is employed, to show him what constitutes real artistic excellence in this new branch of Art, that he may so raise the standard of its productions.

I have written, too, for those desirous of adopting Photographic Colouring as a Profession, that, while instructing with my best ability, I may also honestly show how they may rpishly waste time and energies if they do not consider the difficulties in their way, and the time and study which must be expended, ere

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they can attain sufficient ability to earn a decent livelihood by its practice.

Portions of the substance of these lessons have already appeared in a photographic journal. The haste with which, however, the contributions to a periodical are necessarily prepared, precludes the complete arrangement desirable in a book of progressive instructions. I have, therefore, in rewriting and extending the lessons availed myself of the opportunity of adding such hints as have been suggested by correspondence with pupils during the periodical appearance of the lessons. I may here, perhaps, be permitted to thank many such correspondents for their flattering assurances of benefit received from these instructions in their cruder form.

My own successful career as a Photographic Colourist and a Teacher of the Art, my previous practice as a Portrait and Miniature Painter, and the long experience and familiarity of daily practice, will, I hope, tend to render this little work useM to the professional student, the amateur painter, and the photographic colourist.

A. H. W.