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 310
the shades. The veins of green leaves, if dark, can be pencilled inwith Vandyke-brown, adding a little indigo for thedarker places. If the veins are lighter than the leaf,pencil them in with Chinese white, and stain them withcolor. For drops of water, the under part must bedarker, and the light may… … ILLUMINATING. ]N ancient times, our forefathers had away of introducing the first letter of sen-tences to their readers, dressed and dec-orated with brilliant colors; and some-times, by way of emphasizing a whole sentence, everyletter would be illumined, so as to attract more attention.The style of…
Arts · Painting · Drawing
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