. Art crafts for amateurs . Be very careful not to get too much water or turpentine in the brushes, or disasterwill follow. It is possible to slightly vary the tints used instead ofgetting each impression mechanically the same. The bestway to effect this is to have the tinting colours in batcheson the palette and a lot of white also ; you can then takea little of the colour in the brush, and just dip it also in the the brush you avoidthe danger of thecolour spreading andso producing ablurred No. 164.—Flying Bird, adapted fromJapanese drawing. 222 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. white, th
. Art crafts for amateurs . Be very careful not to get too much water or turpentine in the brushes, or disasterwill follow. It is possible to slightly vary the tints used instead ofgetting each impression mechanically the same. The bestway to effect this is to have the tinting colours in batcheson the palette and a lot of white also ; you can then takea little of the colour in the brush, and just dip it also in the the brush you avoidthe danger of thecolour spreading andso producing ablurred No. 164.—Flying Bird, adapted fromJapanese drawing. 222 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. white, then knock the brush a few times on the palette tomix them before rubbing over the stencil-plate. In this way you break thecolour on thestencil and the ef-fect is much betterthan if you alwaysused the relieves stencil-ling of the me-chanical to usecolour in this little practicewill soon makeanyone expert invarying the tintsad infinitum. Hold the stencilwith the left handand with the rightkeep knocking thebrush on the plate,working out thecolour in this wayrather than byrubbing it over thestencil. This par-ticularly applies toa freshly chargedNo. 165.—Arras Wall Hangings in stencil. brush, for when
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