Cyclopedia of painting : containing useful and valuable information on the following subjects : adulteration of paint, blistering of paint, brushes, calcimining, carriage painting, china painting, colors, color harmony, color mixing, color testing, exterior painting, gilding, graining, house painting, marbling, mildew, oils and driers, oil painting on glass, painting a bath tub, painting in distemper, paperhanger's tools, paperhanging, pigments, plain oil painting, primary colors, priming, scenic painting, sign painting, stains, staining, stencilling, turpentine, varnishes, varnishing, water color painting, when not to paint, practical points on painting, useful information (1908)
Armstrong, George D · Chicago : F.J. Drake · leaf 357
nent object, and musttherefore be carefully outlined and spaced. The paintershould take as models the engraved head-lines of some ofthe copy-books now used in the schools, then proceed todraw the letters on a much larger scale, outlining them inpencil, and subsequently in color, and finally… … Fig-. 87. long letters. If the capitals are too small, a degree ofmeanness is given to the writing, and the effect of the tailsof the letters being too short is extremely unpleasant. Va-rious teachers of writing and engraving have different rulesas to the lengths of the letters which are to project…
