Self-instructive lessons in painting with oil and water-colors : on silk, satin, velvet and other fabrics : including lustra painting and the use of other mediums (1885)
Hale, Susan, 1833-1910 · Boston : S.W. Tilton and Co. · leaf 106
104 SELF-INS TR UCTIVE LESSONS all the rules for its use apply with even more force to working in colors. A cube painted white, which is held as the first model for students drawing from objects, is the best thing to use in illustration. However, a square white pasteboard band- box will answer just… … Place it near a window where the light will strike it upon the left, and where no other window is behind or on the other side. It must be on a low chair, so that you can see the top when you are sitting at a little distance, and it should stand on a platform of gray, and have a gray background. The…
Painting · Decoration and ornament · Textile painting
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