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Dots Of Color Resemble:
Our layout changes from year to year, but simplicity is the] keynote. I place taller plants in the rear, shorter ones up front, and keep the pathways between neat and tidy, so the dots of color resemble a Mondrian painting, a Broadway boogie-woogie of blossoms.Glazing is sometimes produced by means of a spatter finish that consists of covering the surface evenly with small dots of pigment that are complementary in hue to the surface color. This may be done by using a sprayer or by gently finger-snapping the hairs of a large paint brush toward the surface until the required effect is obtained. This treatment neutralizes the color of the original paint, but should be done most carefully and consistently, and never excessively. The dots should be very small and indistinguishable when viewed from a distance of six feet. Neutralizing done by this method leaves a more vibrant effect than when the paint is originally mixed with neutralizing pigments and the method resembles that employed by the Impressionist artists of the 19th century.
The dots appear in varying size, depending on the tones of the original photographs. A negative copy of the picture is first made with a camera, inside of which is fitted the halftone screen. This negative is then printed on a metal coated with bichromated gelatin. The dots on the negative allow light to penetrate and render the glue insoluble, so that when the plate is etched with acid each single dot remains on the surface of the plate, which is then mounted at type height on a wooden block. In the final print the minute clusters of dots cannot be distinguished, but appear as tones of gray.
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