The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for mixing colors . Fig. 58.—Continued. THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 101 To make an ellipse will now occupy our attention. Supposing the line of letters we are about to form arefive inches high, we must, in order to have the line appearperfectly straight, or the letters of one height, make allthe round letters, i.
The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for mixing colors . Fig. 58.—Continued. THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 101 To make an ellipse will now occupy our attention. Supposing the line of letters we are about to form arefive inches high, we must, in order to have the line appearperfectly straight, or the letters of one height, make allthe round letters, i. e., C, G, O, S, Q, to extend a trifleabove and below the lines, say one-eighth of an inch, asillustrated in Fig. 52, otherwise these letters would appearsmaller than the others in the line. To lay out such. Fig. 54.—Showing the Manner of Drawing the then, using an ellipse, we cut from a card a patternafter it has been drawn in the following manner : The ovalor ellipse must be a very little over five inches long, and avery little over three and a half inches wide. First draw ahorizontal line through the centre, which will be seen inthe engraving, Fig. 54, marked N N. Then across itscentre draw a vertical line H H. Next measure fromthe centre one-half the desired length of the ellipse,t. e., two and three-quarter inches each way or 102 THE COMPLETE CARRIAOE AND WAGON PAINTER. line N, and one and three-quarter inches on lineH, which gives the space that the oval or ellipse mustfill. Now take the compasses (or dividers) and put-ting one leg on the centre M place the other leg at thepoint, two and three-quarter inches off on line iV, lift thecompasses, being careful not to displace them, and set oneleg on spot H, one and three-quarter inches from centre,and turn the other le
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