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 (1895)
Schriber, Fritz · New York : M.T. Richardson · leaf 108
CHAPTER XII. SHADING. Again we are called upon to deplore the inroads made by sign and show card letterers. It was formerly the custom to shade all letters on the right side and bottom, except in the case of the sunk-bottom of cars,when the shade was thrown on the fop and right side. But now we see… … Fig. 56. — Showing an Octagon Half Block with a Single Shade Blocked. teristic of the wagon letterer. There may be a few sign writers who can letter a wagon according to rule, but, as a general thing, their work falls below the standard. We show in Fig. 56 an octagon half-block with a single shade,…
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