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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(September 1881)
... with them a great deal
now.
I have also started to introduce the brush and the stump.
With a little sepia and India ink, and now and then with a
little colour.
What is quite certain is that the drawings I have been doing
lately bear... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 12-16 January 1882)
... I shall not have a cent
left by that time. Meanwhile I intend to go on making those
little pen drawings, but in a style different from that of last
summer's large one. Somewhat more fiercely and savagely.
This is a little sketch of the Schenkweg, the... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 10 April 1882)
... and yet it is directly after the model .
You should know that I had two underlayers
beneath my paper. I had been working hard to get the right
contour; when I took the drawing from the board, it had been
imprinted quite correctly on the two underlayers, and I
... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 15 April 1882)
... what I shall call non
ébarbée. If I have not fixed your drawing, or
have worked on it again here and there after having fixed it,
so that there are spots with an unpleasant shine, just pour a
large glass of milk, or water and milk, over it and let... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(1 May 1882)
... from
those with thin Fabers, etc.
I prefer the graphite in its natural form to that ground so
fine in those expensive Fabers. And the shininess disappears by
throwing some milk over it. When working outdoors with
conté crayon, the strong light prevents... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2 May 1882)
... the drawings being mounted on cardboard.
With regard to this one I hammered it off in a single day,
having studied the same spot and trees for “The
Roots.” So it has been done “tout d'un trait”
out of doors, and has not even been in my studio.... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 10-12 August 1882)
... sentiment for it, or was unable to do it?
But I have attached great value to drawing and will continue
to do so, because it is the backbone of painting, the skeleton
that supports all the rest. I like it so much, Theo, that it is
only because of the expenses... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(3 September 1882)
... no matter
what may be said about it.
I said to myself while I was doing it: don't let me leave
before there is something of the autumnal evening in it,
something mysterious, something important. However - because
this effect doesn't last - I had to paint... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(17 September 1882)
... garden, and part of the Geest.
You can see from the enclosed sketch what I want to make -
groups of people who are in action some way or another. But how
difficult it is to bring life and movement into it and to put
the figures in their places, yet separate... |
