Ladies' manual of art : or, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel and crayon drawing, taxidermy, etc (1887)
Philadelphia : American Mutual Library Association · leaf 51
rwater, scrape some black crayon into a powder, and lay it on yourboard with the blender, working it horizontally, making thelights and shades stronger as it comes nearer. Use the pen-knifefor making sharp lights. Dark subjects work to the best advan-tage, such as moonlight scenes on the water, old… … ♦ » isr this branch of fine art we will avoid all prelimi-nary remarks in regard to its advantages, and di-rect you at once to the method of treating it, inas clear and comprehensible a manner as possible,and at the same time omit nothing that will inany way facilitate the progress of the learner.…
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