Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Canal Scene  in Holland

Technique


                    A canal in Holland, Colby College Museum of Art
A canal in Holland, Colby College Museum of Art

Whistler used a square-ended brush for some of the bricks and reflections, and a fine-pointed sable brush for details. Some drops of colour were dropped into larger areas of wash, so that the colours ran into each other, and some were superimposed in layers. White body-colour was used above the roof in the centre and round some windows.

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