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Etten, Aug/Sep 1881
"At Stam's I found Ingres paper twice as thick as the ordinary kind, one can work better on it. But alas, it's white. Would there be any chance of your..."
Etten, September 1881
"I brought along some conté-crayon in wood (just like pencils) from The Hague, and I work with them a great deal now." "If you like and are able to, please remember the Ingres paper, the colour of unbleached linen, the stronger kind if possible."
Etten, 12 October 1881
"At present I am working a good deal with charcoal and black crayon, and I have also tried sepia and watercolour."
Etten, c. 21 December 1881
"I must start using better paint and better paper now. For studies and sketches, though, the Ingres paper is excellent. And it works out much cheaper t..."
Etten, 22-24 December 1881
"You must know, Theo, that Mauve has sent me a paintbox with paint, brushes, palette, palette knife, oil, turpentine - in short, everything necessary."
The Hague, 5 August 1882
"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 ..."
The Hague, 19 August 1882
"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 ..."
The Hague, 18-19 September 1882
"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 easil..."
The Hague, 31 and 2 Dec-Jan 1882
"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 ..."
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