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 . Fig. 148.—Broad Striping Pencil. Broad striping, unless done with heavy color, isbest done with a camel-hair pencil. To choosethese tools, be sure that the hair is perfectlystraight, dark-colored,
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 . Fig. 148.—Broad Striping Pencil. Broad striping, unless done with heavy color, isbest done with a camel-hair pencil. To choosethese tools, be sure that the hair is perfectlystraight, dark-colored, and not over two and one-. Fig. 149.—Three Sizes of Striping Pencils. half inches in length, for if too long the hairs willdrop or sag down to such an extent as to be almostuseless ; while if too short a straight line cannotbe drawn. The old-fashioned round pencils arestill in use in many shops, and we illustrate themhere. Never, under any circumstances draw astriping pencil through between the lips to form apoint, as many do when purchasing them, for itruins a pencil to come in contact with warmspittle. STRIPING. 373 All pencils should be well cared for after is a poor practice to stick them against a win-dow-pane with candle grease. A covered box toexclude the dusk is not expensive, and in this thepencils may be laid away in safety, having- firstg iven them a plentiful anointing- with a mixtureof tallow and sweet oil which will not get hard inwinter. Then have a piece of tin or glass just fit-ting- the box, on which to lay them straight. If apencil gets bent or out of shape, it can be straight-ened b
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