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 119
THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 115 The flat outline of a Roman scroll presents no pleasing form, it is the shade, as shown in Fig. 63, which gives it effect. The shading must be done in an off-hand manner, as it is not well to retouch the shading color when once applied. Some work done in… … Fig. 64. — Scroll or Lettering Pencils. it "sets" very quickly. To put on a scroll in gold: First, lightly sketch the design with chalk upon the pounced panel, then, with size as mixed for striping (see Striping) using a sable lettering pencil as shown in Fig. 64, lay on the size, covering the…
Carriage and wagon painting
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