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 286
be brought back to aand carried round to in pieces of line of about aquarter of an inch in length ; there must however beno joint visible at a. In repeating this exercise thesketch may be commenced at c and be carried round to FREE-HAND DRAWING. b ; and in another copy a curve may start from b and… … Fig. 74. and reversing it on the right side, so as to meet theprevious curve at b. This should be done at variousheights on the perpendicular, the sizes of the pairs ofscrolls diminishing towards the top of the line. 260 ELEMENTARY DRAWING FOR HOUSE PAINTERS. Fig. 74.—This exercise consists of the…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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