. Art crafts for amateurs . study with profit, for it is fullof ingenuity and is usually very well planned, with a nicesense of balance and proportion. The objection I have toit as a source of inspiration, is that it is exceedinglydifficult to be individual where all the motifs are so wellknown —even hackneyed. In the one, No. 91, there is nosuch trammelling, and if the insects could be put in withpearl shell, and the figure in white wood or box on adark ground, a good effect could be produced. How little a design on paper suggests the effect ofinlaying can be seen by referring to Nos. 79 and
. Art crafts for amateurs . study with profit, for it is fullof ingenuity and is usually very well planned, with a nicesense of balance and proportion. The objection I have toit as a source of inspiration, is that it is exceedinglydifficult to be individual where all the motifs are so wellknown —even hackneyed. In the one, No. 91, there is nosuch trammelling, and if the insects could be put in withpearl shell, and the figure in white wood or box on adark ground, a good effect could be produced. How little a design on paper suggests the effect ofinlaying can be seen by referring to Nos. 79 and 80. In thelate Paris Exhibition some quite remarkable works wereshown. Plants like the hemlock were treated as veneersby skilfully massing the forms and only giving the generalshape of the heads of flowers. The veneers used werechiefly tones of brown, so that the whole effect was abeautiful harmony. Much of this inlaid furniture wasunpolished or only waxed. CHAPTER Vlir. GESSO, OR PAINTING IN RELIEF, AND KSSO is the name given to a compositionwhich can be used while moist with abrush or other instrument, and loaded onthe surface to be decorated, in greater orless relief. This hardens as it dries, sothat when the moisture has quite evapo-rated the composition is both durable and capable of receiv-ing colour. Skill is soon acquired in using gesso, as it canbe made of the consistency of thick cream, so as to comefreely from a long-haired brush. The worker can paintgesso over gesso until considerable relief is obtained, andthis is the only way any great amount of relief can besecured ; though it is important to see that the coat ofgesso below is hard before putting more on, for if thecomposition be loaded on very thickly it cracks in thedrying. For the decoration of wood gesso is admir-able, and it is a great gain, as those who try it willadmit, to be able to obtain a certain amount of relief inpainted decoration. Not that you wish in any way toimitate carving,
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