Miller, Fred, decorative artist · New York, London, Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ld. · leaf 152
in the use of oil colour and thehopeless condition I soon got in. There are few moredifficult things to manage at the outset than oil colours— GESSO. 139 Ruskin said it was the most difficult of all handwork—andto obtain any mastery is a matter of considerable practice.Gesso is like modelling in… … No. 95.—Design for Coffer, with decorated panel and lid.For details see No. 96. There are more ornamental possibilities in a craft like gessothan in painting, as is seen by carrying out the same simpledesign both in paint and gesso. It will have a quality andvalue in the latter which it cannot have…
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