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 25
s the first thing to be drawn. Draw a straightHne, and upon it mark with a dotted or faint line thewidth of the mouth, center, thickness of lips, etc., givingcareful attention to the form ; then develop these marksinto a correct outline of the form to be imitated, and theremaining steps of filling… … will enable the learner in a short time to preserve therelative proportions as well without as with this line. DRAWING. 23 In making the lines which give form or rotundity, com-mence with the most prominent ones, attending carefullyto all the details of light and shade, and not attemptingtoo rapid…
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