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 346
e done with theinformation imparted in the three lessons alreadygiven. Lesson 4.—There are a thousand peculiar shapesand forms constituting scrolls. The learnershould choose one or two standard designs andpractice on these until he makes them perfectly,then, add new features as he improves.… … Fig. 130. SCROLL PAINTING. diameter should form the centre, and a gradualdiminution of curves, in their various forms, bemade to extend therefrom, until the end or apexis reached, on either side. The same rule is applic-able to a corner pattern, and a close observationof such work made by an…
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