The painters' encyclopædiaContaining definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ..and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used . ed. Stripe.—A line or long narrow division of anythingof different color from the ground {See Striping). Striping.—The application of colored lines of singleor of various widths upon a painted sur
The painters' encyclopædiaContaining definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ..and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used . ed. Stripe.—A line or long narrow division of anythingof different color from the ground {See Striping). Striping.—The application of colored lines of singleor of various widths upon a painted surface, par-ticularly on carriages and railway cars. To stripe a carriage well it is requisite that theworkman be supplied with good tools, such assable-hair or camels-hair pencils of variouswidths or sizes, and with paint, or as commonlycalled color, mixed in the best manner andground as fine as possible, for no real fine workcan be made with poor materials. The actual work of striping may be learned ina few moments by simply watching the move-ments of a good striper, but it requires extendedpractice to educate the eye and hand up to that 0 STRIPING. standard where first-class work is readily turnedout. The hand alone, no matter how cunning- itmay be in the use of the striping- pencil, will neverbe successful without the aid of a quick and ac-curate eye, for that is really the prime Fig. 147. —Showing the Position of the Hand in Stripingthe Rim of a Whlel. The eye must be quick to detect the slig-htest varia-tion from a correct line and to chang-e the move-ment of the hand before a wrong- or crooked markis made. The eye of the workman is directed, when oncethe pencil is laid upon the work, alternately fromthe gauge line, if marked, or an imaginary one if STRIPING. 371 not; then to the heel or butt of the pencil whereit touches the guage line, resting- here during thedrawing of the line, leaving the point of the pencilto follow the course of the butt, which it will
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