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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (19 August 1882) ... gives me a new, fresh view of things.
The next time you send money, I shall buy some good marten
brushes, which are the real drawing brushes, as I have
discovered, for drawing a hand or a profile in colour.
Also, I see they are absolutely necessary... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard (18-19 September 1882) ... man from the almshouse posing for
me.
Now it is really high time I returned Karl Robert's Le
fusain to you. I have read it through more than once, but
fusain [charcoal] does not come easily to me, and I prefer to
work with a carpenter's pencil. I wish I could... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 10 October 1882) ... Dear Theo,
Your letter and its contents, literary as well as financial,
were very welcome, and I thank you warmly for it. In the first
place, I was especially glad to hear that perhaps it will not
be so very long before you come to Holland again. I should like
very much to know as soon... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (31 and 2 Dec-Jan 1882) ... because it cuts
through it.
But it occurred to me to make a drawing first with
carpenter's pencil and then to work in and over it with
lithographic crayon, which (because of the greasiness of the
material) fixes the pencil, a thing ordinary crayon... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 2 March 1883) ... accentuate the lights with Chinese white.
Do you remember that last summer you brought me pieces of
mountain crayon? I tried to work with it at the time, but it
didn't work well. So a few pieces were left, which I picked up
the other day; enclosed you'll find... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 4 March 1883) ... effect of the windows in the studio.
Will you do me a very great favour - send me a few
pieces of that crayon by mail?
There is a soul and life in that crayon - I think
conté pencil is dead. Two violins may look the same on
the outside,... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard (c. 5 March 1883) ... rather expensive: 1.75 guilders per sheet.
The lithographic crayon - likewise made expressly for this
paper - is more expensive than the ordinary kind, and in my
opinion much worse than the crayon that is not expressly
made for it. Autographic ink, liquid... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (11 March 1883) ... are least expensive so much despised?
As to the crayon, I do not know whether the one you gave me
came from the Plaats, but I am quite sure that you gave it to
me on your visit of last summer, or perhaps when I was still
in Etten. In a drug store I found... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (c. 21 March 1883) ... that one can find the same effect again.
I'm very glad to hear you found the crayon. It didn't arrive
in today's mail, however, though you wrote you had sent it. If
you have forgotten it, I remind you of it again, and if you
have already sent it, it will certainly... |