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)
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of green ;take out, and remove the coating of wax from both theupper and under side of the leaf; put the two together,with a wire between them, and you get a beautiful leaf.Another, less perfect, but easier method, is to make amold of a natural leaf, either of plaster or by pressingtogether pieces… … REAT care is necessary in regard to theconsistency of the plaster, and the thoroughgreasing of the molds. Pro^dde yourself with the best groundErench plaster, some good lamp or neatsfoot oil, (if the former, add a very smallbit of mutton tallow,) camels hair pen-cil, penknife, rags, thick brown…
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