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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(21-28 March 1883)
... it is vivid and powerful
enough.
I believe I've already written to you that I was able to
find some mountain chalk here in the city. I am at work with
that, as well.
To my mind the cold spell we had last week was the most
perfect part of this... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(21-28 March 1883)
... window at a landscape in the
snow.
I have found the “black mountain crayon” I wrote
you about here in this city too; it is something which was
virtually unknown to me until recently. But now I discover that
it is not so rare - and perhaps you... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(30 and 1 March-April 1883)
... and White”
exhibition.
I received the crayon - many thanks - it is very good. But
it is softer than the kind you gave me the first time, and the
pieces are half as long. I am still anxious to get that harder
kind in larger pieces, but nevertheless I'm... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2 April 1883)
... brothers - is this your opinion
too?
Lately I have been working with printer's ink, which is
diluted with turpentine and applied with a brush. It gives very
deep tones of black. Diluted with some Chinese white, it also
gives good greys. By adding more or... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(c. 2-4 April 1883)
... tried
out the other day. 1
It goes without saying that the printer's ink -
diluted with more or less turpentine (you can dilute it until
it is so thin that you can wash with it with the utmost
transparency - on the other hand, one can use... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 11 April 1883)
... lot.
But now about the drawings.
I have again done a few with printer's ink, and this week I
made some experiments in mixing that printer's ink with white.
I found out that it can be mixed in two ways - that is, with
the white from the tubes of oil paint... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(c. 25 May 1883)
... have been able
to do it right now.
I had a wooden passe-partout made, something like yours but
without a frame. I am thinking of giving this as yet unpainted
passe-partout a walnut colour, the same colour as your
frame. The work gets on nicely... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(c. 14-15 June 1883)
... was too
overworked to be continued.
Besides I have not ventured to work too much in them with
printer's ink and turpentine; instead I have used charcoal,
lithographic crayon and autographic ink so far.... Except in
the case of the dunghill that became... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(29 and 30 July 1883)
... for me to continue
my painting.
Today I have bought a tripod easel for sketching out of
doors and canvas. The former is very convenient, because it
keeps one from getting so dirty when one has to work on one's
knees out of doors. For the moment I... |
