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Etten, September 1881
"I have also started to introduce the brush and the stump. With a little sepia and India ink, and now and then with a little colour."
The Hague, c. 12-16 January 1882
"Meanwhile I intend to go on making those little pen drawings, but in a style different from that of last summer's large one. Somewhat more fiercely an..."
The Hague, c. 10 April 1882
"You should know that I had two underlayers beneath my paper. I had been working hard to get the right contour; when I took the drawing from the board,..."
The Hague, c. 15 April 1882
"If I have not fixed your drawing, or have worked on it again here and there after having fixed it, so that there are spots with an unpleasant shine, j..."
The Hague, 1 May 1882
"I prefer the graphite in its natural form to that ground so fine in those expensive Fabers. And the shininess disappears by throwing some milk over it..."
The Hague, 2 May 1882
"With regard to this one I hammered it off in a single day, having studied the same spot and trees for “The Roots.” So it has been done “tout d'u..."
The Hague, c. 10-12 August 1882
"But I have attached great value to drawing and will continue to do so, because it is the backbone of painting, the skeleton that supports all the rest..."
The Hague, 3 September 1882
"I said to myself while I was doing it: don't let me leave before there is something of the autumnal evening in it, something mysterious, something imp..."
The Hague, 17 September 1882
"You can see from the enclosed sketch what I want to make - groups of people who are in action some way or another. But how difficult it is to bring li..."
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