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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(5 August 1882)
... I will tell you what I have bought.
First, a large-size moist-colour box containing 12 pieces or
tubes of watercolours, with a double cover, one of which can be
used as a palette; there is also room for about six brushes. It
is an article which is of great... | 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)
... or somewhere often helps me.
Well, be sure to write by the twentieth, I have had to buy
some Whatman paper and brushes. You cannot believe how many
things one sometimes needs. Well, it's the same with every
painter.
A handshake in thought,... | 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... |
