. Art crafts for amateurs . a little help toshow how the Japanese carve such forms as wings, and inNo. 16 will be seen some adaptations of Japanese work. Awing, when we analyse its structure, becomes a very ornamentalform, and, if so looked at, may be an interesting feature incarving. It is a good general principle to direct the studentto develop all ornamental suggestions wherever hair of a childs head must be thought of as a series ofcurved forms, and not as so many hairs. A wing, again,is an arrangement of feathers, and not a fluffy bewilderingmass of down. Hair, again, must be in
. Art crafts for amateurs . a little help toshow how the Japanese carve such forms as wings, and inNo. 16 will be seen some adaptations of Japanese work. Awing, when we analyse its structure, becomes a very ornamentalform, and, if so looked at, may be an interesting feature incarving. It is a good general principle to direct the studentto develop all ornamental suggestions wherever hair of a childs head must be thought of as a series ofcurved forms, and not as so many hairs. A wing, again,is an arrangement of feathers, and not a fluffy bewilderingmass of down. Hair, again, must be indicated where weshould put a little shadow if we were drawing the object,and not by roughing the surface all over with lines. 38 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. But when all is said, rendering surfaces is a difficultywhich can only be overcome by considerable practicedirected by a sense of fitness, which is what taste inwood carving amounts to. Just as the artist learns whatto leave out, so the carver has to learn how he best can. No. 23.—Tuscan Mirror Frame. Sixteenth Century. The festoonborder is characteristic of the time, but it has become, by muchrepetition, a trifle tiresome. translate what he knows into the language of his this is ?wt done by imitation is about the most definitecounsel one can give, though it may be a great help to one,in difficulties, to go and see how some one else has worked,either to know what to avoid or what to do. If we train our artistic perception everything in time can WOOD CARVING. 3 be seen ornamentally. In the fish-panel, No. 19, theJapanese treatment of curling water has been followed,while the fish itself (the gurnard) has been made so orna-mental by nature, that little was required to fit it for acarved panel. When you do introduce birds or otheranimal forms into your work, avoid getting them too pretty,as though they were Christmas cards. The quaint andgrotesque is so much more effective in carving than thepretty-pretty. I would so
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