A practical manual of house-painting, graining, marbling and sign-writing : containing full information on the processes of house-painting in oil and distemper, the formation of letters and practice of sign-writing, the principles of decorative art, a course of elementary drawing for house-painters, writers, etc., and a collection of useful receipts ; with nine coloured illustrations of woods and marbles, and numerous wood engravings (1888)
Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878 · London : C. Lockwood & Son · leaf 269
Fig. 50. back thus far (and what pleasant reminiscences of thoseearly days will at the same time arise), the picture ofthe first line in our copy book will present itself to ourminds eye in something like the annexed form, and this … Fig. 51. result we must now in maturer years avoid, and mustbe careful that a given number of lines may slant inprecisely the same direction, be at exactly the samedistance apart, and of the same length. FREE-HAND DRAWING, 243 Oblique lines slanting from left to right, Fig. 62, willform the next…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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