The painters' encyclopædia. Containing definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ... and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used (1887)
Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.) · New York, M.T. Richardson · leaf 341
n Figs. 118 and 119, are to be 334 SCROLL PAINTING. made, and it will be well to draw these, alternat-ing- with the curved, until both the curved andstraight lines can be easily and quickly producedwith the chalk. The line made in a serpentine form or doublesweep is called Hogarths line of beauty,… … Fig. 118. Fig. 119. eye, it is best for all such auxiliaries to be laidaside, then, confidence will be established, andstrength, freedom and beauty will be added tothe designs. The drawing of parallel lines eithercurved or straight may seem to be of little use,but this is done to coach the eye and…
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