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 267
hair work ishalf the length of the hairs which make it. If you have but ascant pattern, use the short hairs first, not the shortest, but begin-ning with those perhaps of five inches in length, and then takingthose which are longer. Practice in this art is of more value than precept. The artistwill… … HOSE who are so fortunate as tohave in their possession finefeathers can certainly make fineflowers. Have at hand gum insolution, French paper for wind-ing stems, and wire of differentsizes. Draw the under side ofthe feather gently over the edgeof your penknife to bend it inthe required direction;…
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