Made One Wonder.

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19597, 8 June 1935, Page 17 (Supplement)

Made One Wonder.

But the critical mind was not lulled to sleep, and I wondered what made some of the exhibitors choose the mediums they did to express themselves.

i Many of the oils arc brushed in as though with water-colours, and many of the water-colours imitate the effects of oil.

Of course, a number of the artists do bring out the individual characteristics of their mediums, as Mervyn Peake, who, in “ Sole and Plaice,” boldly renders Hie tones of Hie fish, and Caret Weigh, who is revealed in his self-portrait as a clever manipulator of paints.

Who lias not at one time or other stopped during a walk In exclaim, “ What a good picture this would make.”

One day T said the phrase while looking at a ralsailed yachl on Regent’s Park lake. Sylvia Gosse, perhaps, heard me. At any rale, her “Jolly Roger in 'Home "waters " shows, unless I am greatly mistaken, the self-same yacht, and it does make a good picture.