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 342
toinsert the bunch of hairs. This done we find thata fine ornamental pencil is not so much after all,so far as making is concerned. Now for the paint.The color, or paint as some would call it, for thiswork should be mixed in some quick-drying var-nish or japan and tempered with linseed oil untilit… … Fig. 120. SCROLL PAINTING. from the pencil—or else if thinned too much flowtoo freely and cause trouble. The next in orderis the design, and this must come spontaneouslyfrom the end of the pencil. We are not aboutto present you with finely drawn and pricked pat-terns. Here you will see what to do…
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