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 290
ular. As already pointed out, the left sidemust be sketched first, and made as nearly as possiblecorrect before the right side is attempted. FKEE-HAND DRAWING. 263 The whole subject may now, for additional practice,be inverted; the perpendicular and a horizontal atthe bottom of the present figure… … Fig. 78.- By this we mean that although the idea is taken fromnature, still the leaves do not grow in a manner soaccurately balanced or so precisely disposed. Thisprinci23le has already been laid down in Proposition 11,page 231, and should be borne in mind by every decora-tive painter; but it raust…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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