THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1950;
Britain makes BUY A PAINTBOX
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coins for the nations
By
NORMAN HILLSON
been
THEN Nairobi, capital which has been copied through--
of Kenyn, recently out the world,
Commate of the United King- celebrated the 50th anniver, dom has for many years sary of its foundation and made entirely at the Royal Mint received a Royal Charter. Only colnago for countries over- the townsfolk in the streets is made at the two private
minis In Birmingham.
and shops rattled brand every сле the manufacture new. two shilling pieces, come under the supreme direc- 'freshly arrived from a mint tion of the Master of the Mint
or his deputy, in Birmingham, England.
For coins of many lands aro made at two private mints there, . and recently the presses have
tor
Baso metal
AND HAVE A TRY
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"BUY a paintbox and have a try." That is the advice of a world-famous artist, Honorary Academician Extraordinary of the Royal Academy, who still finds time for his politics-
CHUR- WINSTON SPENCER CHILL.
ON'T be scared by oil painting. The
bearded gentlemen have no
pro-
fessional monopoly of this form of art. Anyone can join in-and a sur- prising number of people you know best in engineers, policemen, actors, and the lot of fun out of a rest are getting a little daring.
been engaged in turning out,DAY world coinage, with a few exceptions, is composed of coinage for Britala's colonies in back metal, and at Birmingham; East and West Africa. It is not two altoys are in general use, Many more would be trying it now but to long since they delivered the according to the demuruts and for the stupid idea that one must have New currency prutoth
Overseas "something** to paint. I have known Jurnel. and coin minted In requirements of the
customer. One is composed of are in circulation site.
10 percent, copper,
20 percent
percent beginners who have started off early in Ezine, and one percent nickel, and the morning with a load of new painting Ethiopia, Iraq, Saudi
Arable the other courts of 75 percent, kit and tramped miles looking for this and Ceylon.
nickel.
nebulous "something." This is absurd. Mining of colnago in Britain copper and 25 percent
The mixtures are no arranged
Birmingham
In Foland. Rumanin,
Kin
has been under roynt or Rate that the caltant alloy will be
When I started painting 14 years control from very early days, hard and able to
stand up ta medieval times the
ago in Kent, I painted what I saw: oast- ink wear and tear.
10 rpecial licences
netual prochen of houses, barns, farmyards. coluers in many parts of the manufacture is complicated anti country, but In the course of
of hvolven the we of machinery
franted
gr.ited
years the lemte of monry was adjusted to minute accuracy. concentrated in the Royal Mint No matter what the value or
•
Don't get complicated
an
un Tower Hill, London, and to denomination of the coinage, the CHOOSE something with a few large money could be manufactured method is the same once the objects in it. Don't attempt anywhere else without the dies have been approved and enormous.canvas that can become too authority of the "Master and adjustcet,
Worker," which in another de signation for the Chancellor of
Exchequer, the misting of
All the manufacture starts
complicated.
We kept the with sheets of metal, pressed ty Pick, say, a house or a tree or a road. preciants metals as the required thickness, and Have this main feature in the middle, His own monopoly but permis cut into strips. These strips are then build your landscape-round it. Every sion was Liven to private zed through a special cutting
out picture should have some such centre of which faclories to make money from machine
Stamps circular alloys and copper
of interest, some definite focal point. 40,000 hour. As the jctions pilea emulate so they are into box trucks and wheeled
End of contury quus & was that in the end of
hom manufacturer,
Boullon.
es at the rate
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HERE, JOHN MINTON, at 32 the Royal College of Arts' youngest teacher, a brilliant ex- hibitioner, in London and New York, and one of our most sought after magazine illus- trators, explains how best to follow this good advice.
Mr. Churchill paints; bira. Churchill looks oft
What You Need For Your New Hobby
rquiis hobby, like any YOU ALSO NEED:- T other, needs an initial "Six logo' hair brushes. outlay of money, Buy a Buy two smallah No. 2 Iarge wooden paletic. Buy alxe: two of No. 4; one of students' colours or de No. 6, and one of No. & corators' olla. These are
are ideal to start ön.
anu
not ground so anely ai Then....lurps for mix- the artists colours. and ing the paints; and soap water for washingt There will be white, out the brushes after use. The canvases are sold crimson, vermilion, cobalt blue, prussian blue, yel- on strelchers wooden them ow ochre, lemon yellow, frames that keep burnt sienna brown, and faut-alrendy
sized and with a white undercoat. the prices vary.
You can
The mix up your
best. sizes
to
own greens and purpler choose: 201ns. by 16las, Or and shades of colour,
24ns by 201m.
DOS & DON'TS
• DON'T paint from imagination-paint from nature. Never paint "out of your head," Dryden put it pithily: "Art may grr, but naturo cannot mits."
• DON'T paint self-consciously beautiful things like statues or Olde Worlde scenes. Be original. DO choose interesting subjects. By these, mrun things that are funcional, that have n definite use. A house, because it is lived in; a boat, because men call it and live by it.
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DON'T be afraid. Have courage. There is no about pointing. It is just a job that must
mystered, like any other. It fa a practical
Lie
job.
Set about in a practical way," llave method.
•
DD use a large palette, and buy a wooden Plastle ones are not so good for amateurs. Have a definite arrangement for laying your paints out near you! the blues in one plice, the reds in another. And always stick to this ar rangement.
DON'T be mean when you start to paint squeeze out a good dollop of colour from the tube. Nothing is so irritating to the orlist on having to mix up more colour when he wants to be driving alend.
• DO huy an chɛel. Some people do without, and others make their own. Nelther way is ratis- factory. You can't do rool work without the proper tools for it.
DON'T be put off by enlookers. ("We older hands try to paint with our backs against a wall. Then no one can look over our shoulders.")
As you
as the man next
Let him paint it that way if bo wants to,
draughtsmanship. Forget an that. There are as Remember this is to be YOUR Soon, you will find the has a great store for the from the shopping list I ing is
have made out (above), and The first drawing is the many different ways of puiting pleture. Paint the scene This advice is as old as you are, ready to make the akeleton on which you can int on to canvas as there are see It-not stip door sees t artists, Some use little, away to an annealing; furance things you can paint best, lean winter months. urance perhaps green landscapes or to be softened and tempered.
used Constable
the to first stroke with the brush. then brush
flesh
of pling or town- art.
strokes; others long, the 18th century the Birming They are then fed into a hopper hills under snow
Well don't. DON'T start colour. ***
make many small sketches
Howing onCI. who in collaboration with Jane hit inmultaneously top and scapes,
the with the canvas white s boltoin by nied
before he attempted Dunches Watt, the famous inventor,
final painting.
you buy it from the shop. practical ernied with tremendous force. created one of the first practical The impact is such that the coin steam engines, made roins
His made with designs on the two
sides.
India and for France. plant was at Birmingham, a with him began the association of minting money with that rlly which was continued without internuplion ever sluce.
Boulton was also under con-
THE
Prutoth coins
PE East African florin, or two
carries shilling plece,
the
I carry sketch books with me on my travels and make small drawings of things that hold the eye, and mark in what colours I will use
ter on.
tract to manufacture copper coins head of King George VI and, on Store for.
for nudinary home circulation to the the valuri
scale.
reverse,
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halfpenny
Tiun stalking with the д nough the Jungle of twopence,
and farthing
Kivat Kenya mountain large prutoth coins of the new state
another White is the hardest tone of Jab, dab or scrape?
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That in a personal a thing as suit a man's handwriting. So yourself.
And you make mistakes Chur- listen again to Winston chill in his book.
"One sweep of the palette-
Gainsborough,
it white artist whom all. If you leave
Start freely with your colour. can't see landscape
what value you are now ready to squece Don't do the detail work right knife if the blood and tears circumstances forced
to you
the other colours, have unti! I the paint out of the tube away, Paint over the main out a morning and enables paint portraits and live in town (both of which he dis, the whole canvas is covered and on to the palette. Whether lines roughly, in the peritions fresh start to be made; indeed,
with paint.
you use it neat ne diluted with they will have in the and pic- the canvas is all the better for liked doing), used to set úp
turps is up to you.
past impressions," winter rocks and stones and pieces
Mix up some earth colour',
My advice is never to pat of coal in his studio in the (such as burnt sieuna) with the palul on Ioo thickly: always
turps in
solution, teave the a weak
be
furo
Rough it in
建
There is a challenge in an empty canvas. A daring needed
to it. And once Aled—a satisfaction.and-peldo_that no
paint TF you have, say, a house or other hobby can equal.
n tree in your landscape, Don't aim at a masterpieco, rough them in Orst. Don't start Aim at pleasure; you can be
patterns
picturs so that you 10 you sketch in your ideas same formatiu. Ten he and paint the whole thing con go on with it again later. noiton may be said to be the background. The 50 and state first, then you can work of hills he liked.
with this. It will take the You will find for yourself the
between medium And best ploneer of mining on
hard brightness off.
“
thick which is
and that Ancient coins were of frael have the figures on the on the final picture quietly would paint from them.
13 too There's no wind But, for a start, paint it will get you used to the which is too watery. fashioned by placing a piece of one side and a bunch of grapes at home.
and a palm tree on the other there to blow the canvas something near at hand feel of a brush on canvas If you have ever seen an off with a lot of minute window sure of that. metal on nn anvil au which
about. And the light is while the first enthusiasm is
Now don't mess about in painter at work, you will prob- frames or the defeate design was engraved and then respective aides. atriking
the former n thorp.
the coloured oils until you ably have a vague recollection of the leaves. Each machine can make 45,-
the course of constant. In this country with you. blow To that the intaglio was 000 coins
have drawn your landscape that he dabted the paint on-or
Let he tab the canvas?--or did
the picture build Up (Odhams and Benn), 101. Ed. Thut before the the light outside is rarely working day. reproduced.
roughly in pencil or char he scrape it on like wiping a gradually, as a whole. The Onal for a long time rolus are sent to the counting constant for two days run- was not
coal. The basis of all paint- kaife on the exige of a plate? Repaint it that coins had a design on both machine for subsequent packing hing. The Art mechanical in bullion boxes, each one device for cutting reala of metal into circular shapes for con-
sides.
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passed by a girl checker who's It is rather like copying
trained to delect defective or the squirrel, who collects Now let's
If n coin
not
version Into coinage was in badly stamped coins. troduced. Floulton devised a
up 100 percent culling and stamping machine standard, it is thrown out,
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assume the door is open, you have mer when he can and then bought whatever you
tonuts all through the sum-
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NATIONS
OVER
By L.W.
"Painting As A Pastime"
-(London Express Service)
MAY:
SUEZ
PHELPS-ORION
con-
What of the remaining 50 percent holding? The United Nations will shortly be fronted with the range fact that no one knows with cer tainty who really cwns the Canal. There exits no undis-
and of nominces
That is a new solution of the canal zone after World Egyptian politicians have long puted list of actual shure-hold- ered to counter-influence War I. Under
the 1936 toyed with the idea of taking ers, shem
over Suez, and possibly holding olier-diaguises. Egypt's recent attempts to treaty, her existing status the world to ransom. When the annul the 14-year-old Anglo-
was not due to be examined 99-year concession to France's
The shares are bearer script, Ferdinand de Lesseps expires transferable to any nominee. Egyptian Treaty.
till 1956. Today, however, Fer
In 1908, the Canal becomes Bath Parts and Wall StreeL there is already a nip of dis. Eryption properly. But with 18 dealings in shares suggest that already have a centre of the Cunal Zone, be ruptive challenge in the years to run, new considerations America may
threaten to dissolve the Egyp- large holding. Strong rumjum Lan
also flourish on the Bourse that dream. The growing support for the Soviet Russia holds sufficient proposal that U.N. should take shares to recoup her in divid- over the Canal and run it as ends of the dues exacted from
the Soviet ipping. the Inteful
a non-profit enterprise for Briola Beneft of
the world has one
There 13
Suez air,
Heves that United Nations wardenship of the area will
eventually provide the most
In 1938,
acceptable outcome of a Let us examine
problems. implications. dozen looming Nearly one-fourth of all the recognized Egypt's sovereign in rival alternative.
and undertook to play backed by American dependence,
that
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plance than Suez, to be cut direct from
canal
only one shareholder
when
One
the varied Egypt is thus faced with the possibillies of a Suez
that Sucz may become deal: the territorial owners of
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now
ships passing through the der
evacuate the Surz zone except interests for a bypass canal, 106-mile waterway aro now for a prescribed maximum of wider, deeper and more modern Again, despite its 44 percent American-owned, and it is 10.000 troops end 200
to reinforcement American subject
in the Mediterranean alongside the holding, the British Government suggested naval protection, British air time of war. In 1958. the nttes- Falestine verge to the Gulf of ranke us
force in the Akaba, sity of a British
This project could be and is entitled to only 10 votes, and military strength and canal zone was to be examined completed within four years out of many hundreds,
the matters of policy are voted on. United Nations diplomatic by the League of Nations or at a cost little more than On the board of directors there status offer a tie-up to coun- some other body, provided the actual toll extracted in
are 10 French seats, 10 Bri- tish, two Egyptian, and ter recent Egyptian deten Egyptian Army should be en dues over this period."
polent to take over.
Dutch. tions of cargo and the
flowed Much water has
the treaty tinco
Summing Egyptian ban on the pas past Sucz
The increasing was.
signed, sage of crude oil.
appearance of southbound Soviet fak ships has caused a clir.
Pro obsolete and fall into compara- the Camal face a dilemma. When Government op- tected by Bellain, administered tive disuse before the 18 years the Egyptian
Proved A proposed 32-year by Franco and situated in EsYp expire, Forty-five feet deep and There was a sensation in tian territory, the Canal flaints 210 feet wide, the Canal cannot extension of existing concessions. of the etemal be navigated by 1950's larger ensuring a bigher proportion of Port Said when U.S. naval the elements
of 20,000-tonnera through the 'riangle. At the same in the liners and battleships. Even the profits for Egypt, the General units passed
Assembly out-voted the plan. International significaneo of the passage
ensured only by constant dredg canal en route to manoeu- Suez zone constantly shrinka
-Win the blueprints of an al- vres in the Mediterranean.
To add to the compleations tornative rival Canal In the Britain still Atands Gateway
the Suez problem, Britain background, a. £30,000,000 toan of the shares has been discussed in' Parls and astride Suez. Yet the chief sixty years before the Canal was of
even built, In both wars the holds 44 percent landmarks of British pres- Germans regarded Suez as in the Suez Canal Company, the Washington, discussed and drop
actually running the ped. France has hinted at tige RAF runways brand- vital spot from which England concern
wounded. Canal as a business enterprise, renewed French-Eypilan con- split profits, bat ing the desert with con-Today, Suez is undeniably one There remains a possibility Bri- cession with
turia to the creto at Abbasiah and El of the lobe's mest vulnerable tain may turn over this holding might have to
warfare, and worth £100,000,000, to the Unit USA. for fresh money. Kantara are increasingly targets in atom
The fate
bristling of Suer, ead Marshail Aid. loan repayments fall with complications. is the cur
rent riddle of the Sphinx.
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Napoleon considered
a ing.
to world domination
could be mortally
used by American planes, and her prop is knocked from od States as a part repayment of
war 10ans By consent of the nations, Suez prestige.
It is the "ditch of desiny," The first
Britain assumed defence of a ditch with a question mark, duo next year!