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 . faceA stripe from five to six feet in length may )>«• drawnwithout refilling the pencil, the large quantity of hairacting as a reservoir for the paint; and several sizes oflines may be made with the same pencil by simply regulating the pressure upon it, a heavy pressure making aheavy stripe and a light
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 . faceA stripe from five to six feet in length may )>«• drawnwithout refilling the pencil, the large quantity of hairacting as a reservoir for the paint; and several sizes oflines may be made with the same pencil by simply regulating the pressure upon it, a heavy pressure making aheavy stripe and a light one a finer stripe. The paintermay easily learn to do this by practice, although beginners THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 53 may find it difficult to maintain a uniform pressure, andconsequently a uniform stripe over all parts of the work. The hair for striping pencils should be at least two anda quarter inches long—if too long the hairs will droop orsag down, and if too short, a straight line cannot be made. Ox-hair pencils, also used in striping, are made from thehair which grows in the ear of the animal, and these areconsidered excellent for striping wagon gears, particularlywhere heavy color is used. Fig. 10 represents the striping pencils used by New Fig. 10.—Striping proper position of the hand while striping the rimof a wheel is shown in Fig. 11. The pencil is held betweenthe thumb and fore-finger and the other fingers act as agauge or guide. During the striping, the wheel is keptrevolving by the left hand, while the pencil is held sta-tionary in the right hand. The pencil will require refillingfrequently, and care should be taken that this is done uni-formly. ZINC PALETTES. A zinc palette is said to be the best for working or thin-ning the paint upon, as it is so easily cleaned after its a piece of smooth zinc say three inches wide andnine inches long, cut the ends round, and make a hole inone end by which to hang
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