. Art crafts for amateurs . t this quality into my sketches, as I wanted them tobe as plain as diagrams, so that the reader can see thedetails. 4o ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. One well-known carver told me that he finds his menwork better from rough charcoal sketches than from modelledpatterns, as the cartoon does not trammel them as modelled sketches do; besides,while you are model-ling yourpatterns youcould half carvethem, and to savetime is surely an ob-ject with amateurs. In planning a largework such as a man-tel-piece dont thinkof details until yourspaces have been di-vided up and theconstruc
. Art crafts for amateurs . t this quality into my sketches, as I wanted them tobe as plain as diagrams, so that the reader can see thedetails. 4o ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. One well-known carver told me that he finds his menwork better from rough charcoal sketches than from modelledpatterns, as the cartoon does not trammel them as modelled sketches do; besides,while you are model-ling yourpatterns youcould half carvethem, and to savetime is surely an ob-ject with amateurs. In planning a largework such as a man-tel-piece dont thinkof details until yourspaces have been di-vided up and theconstructive lines andforms arranged once moreto No. 14, it will beseen that, there beinga shelf to support, itwas of the first im-portance to see thatour sense of securitywas satisfied, and tothat end the tops ofthe side panels, equi-valent to the capitals of a pillar, were in higher relief than therest, and after that the minor supports to the shelves, whichalso serve to break up the top of the mantel into panels or. 24. —Gothic Panel.(Mr, W H. Grimwood.) WOOD CARVING. 4 spaces. Having settled all these main features, it is, com-paratively speaking, an easy business to arrange the details. Take the chest No. 2, or the seat No. 5, in Chapter L,and if we analyse these designs we see that the surfacesare divided up geometrically, and then the spaces are treatedwith appropriate ornament. If one ventured to criticisethese two works one might urge that the borders on thestyles around the panels in No. 5 should have been some-what severer in character, so as to have competed less withthe panels, for it is obviously a mistake to decorate everypart of ones work equally. Relief and breadth of effectcan only be obtained by leaving some spaces plainer thanothers, while in No. 2 the filling of the two panels, insteadof being quite so severe, might have suggested naturalgrowth, seeing that the niches are so architectural. Those taking up carving should equip themselves withsome goo
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