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 274
intend to copy, before you,and imitate it by sewing the scale leaves, one at a time, on thevelvet, with fine gold thread, and the leaf stalks and tendrils em-broidered with the same. It is well to draw the thread throughwater before using it, to render it flexible. The beautiful effect produced by… … CCASIONALLY we see very hand-some paper flowers ; but tnen theyare made by persons of taste withgreat care, and from the best ofFrench tissue paper. Dip a large camels hair pencilin thin gum arable, and brushquickly over the whole surface ofthe paper from which you intendto cut your flower; this…
Arts · Painting · Drawing
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