Final Picture Shows: Other color processes are being developed which will open up new profit possibilities in virtually every one of the picture specialties covered in this book. One which is comparatively new and hardly exploited at all is the Flexichrome process, which makes it possible to produce a good color print from a black and white negative. In this process the colors are applied by hand but the final picture shows result bears no resemblance to the ordinary tinted picture. Rather the picture looks like a good color lithograph. Anyone who becomes an expert at making good Flexichrome prints probably could count on a number of years during which he would have little competition.
A man with a collection isn't particularly hot copy for the magazines, because he doesn't, in most cases, display any ingenuity in acquiring his collection, but only a good deal of spare money or a lot of persistence. A man with an odd collection ordinarily makes just one picture, one only moderately interesting if it shows a proud individual surrounded by some sort of "loot." One-picture features are also hard to sell to the magazines. Sometimes, however, other pictures which will interest an editor may be staged. Incidentally, eccentric collections, rather than those notable for being extensive or complete, are the best bets for picture sales to magazines.
The series as a whole shows increasing unity as well as increasing variety ; both results came from adopting the creative method invented by Leonardo: not constructing the picture unit by unit, but conceiving the whole picture as one. The later drawings for Madonnas in this phase resemble doodles, like Leonardo's, out of which new compositional ideas spring spontaneously. These Madonnas were largely painted for leading Florentine patrons, but with the exception of one large altarpiece left unfinished in 1508 (Madonna del Baldacchino; Pitti), this was the limit of Raphael's success as an outsider in Florence.
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