Art recreations : being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting ... moss work, papier mache ... wax work, shell work ... enamel painting, diaphanie ... illuminating &c. : with valuable receipts for preparing materials (1859)
Urbino, L. B. (Levina Buoncuore), -1888, Day, Henry · Boston : S.W. Tilton ; · leaf 34
24 DRAWING. pupil to commence a perfect head with a 'profile ; and here nature provides a base line or point of unerring certainty, by which to produce the head. With the head in an erect position, a line connecting the lower points of the nose and ear will be horizontal ; and thus is established a… … fixed relations. Erect a perpendicular from one end of a horizontal line, and upon this mark the length of the nose, equal to one fourth the whole height of the head. This proportion will, of course, sometimes vary, but it forms a pretty accurate measurement. The oval , we mean the egg-shape oval,…
Decorative arts · Decoration and ornament
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