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 284
Fig. 71. It will of course be understood that in the concisecourse of instruction necessitated by the limits of thiswork the examples chosen must be indicative only,each one becoming, as it were, a representation of a FREE-HAND DRAWING. 257 class; and therefore the student is urged to vary thelast… … Fig. 72. which the curves are carried further roimd than inthe last example, and are followed by inner curves ofdifferent degrees of curvature, the lower curve beingalso of a compound character. 258 ELEMENTARY DRAWING FOR HOUSE PAINTERS. In drawing this example, wliich should be copiedat least…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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