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--- cards:paintbrush_color_change [2015/08/01 00:33] – stephenminch
+++ cards:paintbrush_color_change [2018/06/17 19:41] – Added a couple of references. tylerwilson
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 Two versions of this color-change principle are given in Glenn Gravatt's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/17459/Encyclopedia+of+Self+Working+Card+Tricks/399|Encyclopedia of Self Working Card Tricks]]//, 1936, p. 393. Gravatt gives no attribution, but Jean Hugard, in his revision of Gravatt's book, repeats the second version and credits it to Jack Merlin (p. 341). These handlings involve a triple card, with cards preset face down and face up, which are drawn from the bottom of the deck as a single card and are brushed over the face-up top card to effect the transformation.
-Dai Vernon, in his "Ambitious Card" routine from //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18141/Stars+of+Magic/79|Stars of Magic]]//, Series 5 No. 2, 1949, p. 77 of the 1960 compilation book, uses what is essentially a reverse paintbrush change. The effect is the same, but it is accomplished by pushing a single card forward, and pulling a double card back. And to add yet one more name to the list of people claiming ownership, Jeff Busby credits the move to Neal Elias in //Arcane//, No. 14, 1995, p. 203. Busby gives no citation for this attribution, but it's clear that it couldn't have been before Cloyes due to the timeframe involved.
+An inverse technique, where instead of passing a double card over the deck and coming away with a single card, the performer passes a single card over the deck and comes away with a double card, was mentioned by Walter Gibson in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38626/The+Sphinx/16|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 17 No. 11, Jan. 1919, p. 216. Gibson claims that this method of stealing a card to effect the change is inferior to that of depositing a card to accomplish the same result. Dai Vernon used this inverse technique in his "Ambitious Card" routine from //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18141/Stars+of+Magic/79|Stars of Magic]]//, Series 5 No. 2, 1949, p. 77 of the 1960 compilation book.
+To add yet one more name to the list of people claiming ownership, Jeff Busby credits the move to Neal Elias in //Arcane//, No. 14, 1995, p. 203. Busby gives no citation for this attribution, but it's clear that it couldn't have been before Cloyes due to the timeframe involved.
+A related change was developed around the same time as Cloye's change. It, too, used a paintbrush action on the face of the deck, but the method to secretly accomplish the change was entirely different. It was published by M.F. Crowe as "The Artist Card" in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/38179/The+Sphinx/15|The Sphinx]]//, Vol. 9 No. 5, Oct. 1910, p. 175.
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