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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xcellent practice, and thelearner should improve every opportunity for observa-tion and study; and all attempts at imitation, eitherfrom casts, living heads, or paintings, will insure gratify-ing progress in the art. Proper subjects for copyingare within the reach of all those into whose hands… … LIGHT AND SHADE. A proper disposition of light and shade gives todrawing and painting the expression of form, and thusthe eye receives nearly the same impression in lookingupon the flat canvas or paper as upon the natural ob-jects. So Ruskin remarks, in speaking of color andshading, Every thing…
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