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 56
46 DRAWING. working gradually fainter until the shading is lost in the spot of light ; if we wish the same circle to repre- sent a flat surface, make all the shade marks straight and even, so as to represent one shade. In this way, by studying the natural object we are drawing, the pupil will make… … In shading houses, trunks of trees, rocks, etc., observe which way the natural direction of lines should run, so as to best harmonize with the original, and proceed ac- cordingly.
Decorative arts · Decoration and ornament
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