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 . face, if for goldletters, by pouncing the panel with whiting, dust offnicely, then draw the lines which form the boundary ofthe letter with chalk. Taking the most useful letter for either wagons or cars,and one quite easily made, for a criterion, i. e., the half- Fig. 51.—Showing how a Half Block Letter is
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 . face, if for goldletters, by pouncing the panel with whiting, dust offnicely, then draw the lines which form the boundary ofthe letter with chalk. Taking the most useful letter for either wagons or cars,and one quite easily made, for a criterion, i. e., the half- Fig. 51.—Showing how a Half Block Letter is Designed. m. xK letter, we proceed as shown in Fig. 51, by firstlaj ingout the top and bottom lines, then divide the spacebetween them into five spaces, for a perfectly formedletter is one-fifth higher than wide. By this plan you willmake six horizontal lines. The bars of a letter of this kindshould be equal to one-fifth its height, consequently, wenow have the lines for the top bar, the bottom bar, and THE COMPLETE CAKRIAGE AND WAOON PAINTER. 97 the middle bar of the letter. We next divide the horizon-tal lines by perpendicular ones, forming three and a halfsquares, and this gives us the extreme dimensions of the oc-tagon block B, C, D, G, H, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, Z, &. The. Fig. 52.—Showing how an Ellipse is Used in MakingRound Letters. round block letters occupy a very little more space, say,one-quarter of a square, the letters E, F, J, N and L be-ing one-quarter of a square less than the extremeboundary. The letter I is simply the width of one letter W extends over one square, making it occupyfour and one-half squares. In Fig. 52 we show how the ellipse is used in makinground letters. All round letters are governed in their cir-cular parts by the ellipse, or oval as it is more frequentlycalled, and to illustrate this fact we present here in the alphabet in lower case letters of the Gothic HalfBlock style. 98 THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGOJ} lAINTKft
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