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 274
ourright angles will be formed as shown in Fig. 53. The next exercise, Fig. 57, consists of two lines meet-ing at a point so as to form an acute angle. It is impor-tant that the power of placing such lines at any requiredslant should be acquired, and that they should inclineequally in relation to a… … Fig. 58. it. The position of the angle having been fixed, a pomtis to be marked on the horizontal on each side of thebase of the perpendicular, and to these the lines are tobe drawn. After a while such leading-strings musthowever be discarded. This study is to be varied by drawing the lines so asto…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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