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 344
T be carried on throughout the SCROLL PAINTING. 337 parts of a gear, on beds, bar springs, wheels, etc.,and here in the 2nd lesson you are enabled—if youhave practiced well—to make an ornament. Andnow in Lesson 3, we will look at the next varietyof off-hand ornamentation, namely light scrolls. … Fig. 122. Fig. 123. Lesson 3.—For this work the paint should be quitethin and semi-transparent, and a tint of green,will perhaps look well, so mixing some keg leadand turpentine, and adding a drop of chromegreen, then a few drops of quick varnish, we
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