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 271
any of the plaster figure M 2 244 ELEMENTARY DRAWING FOR HOUSE PAINTERS. shops. Pieces of this rolled out to a convenient thicknessand dried will answer very well: and, further, sticksof such clay may be purchased of most colourmen. In drawing on the black board the hand must beperfectly free, the… … Fig. 54. The pieces should be held by the points only of thefingers, and the whole arm should be moved in thecourse of work, depending only on the chalk ; butnot, as a rule, allowing the hand to touch the board,excepting, perhaps, in some ornamental detail to be sub-sequently spoken of, when some…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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