The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for mixing colors (1899)
Schriber, Fritz · New York : M.T. Richardson · leaf 103
THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 101 To make an ellipse will now occupy our attention. Supposing the line of letters we are about to form are five inches high, we must, in order to have the line appear perfectly straight, or the letters of one height, make all the round letters, i. e., C,… … Fig. 54. — Showing the Manner of Drawing the Ellipse. letters then, using an ellipse, we cut from a card a pattern after it has been drawn in the following manner : The oval or ellipse must be a very little over five inches long, and a very little over three and a half inches wide. First draw a…
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