Art recreations; being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting, crayon drawing and painting, painting on ground glass, Grecian painting, antique painting, oriental painting, sign painting, theorem painting, ferneries, moss work, papier mache, cone work, feather flowers, potichomanie, leather work, hair work, taxidermy, gilding and bronzing, plaster work, decalcomanie, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, imitation of pearl, the aquqrium, sealing-wax painting, panorama painting, coloring photographs, enamel painting, etc. (1873)
Day, Henry · Boston, Shepard & Gill · leaf 24
deed of the wholehuman form, being wholly dependent upon curved lines,no more appropriate place will be found in which to givea few elementary directions on this branch of the art ofdrawing; and it may be remarked, that in all the worksof nature no straight lines are to be found ; trees,… … readily preserved, and a little practice in profile drawing(strict attention being given to the originals) will insure a 22 DRAWING. creditable degree of proficiency. In drawing ^ front view,the artist should begin with the mouth; and as a generalrule, in the words of an artist-author, before…
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