. Art crafts for amateurs . 54 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. The acid has a tendency to eat its way into the edges ofthe design, so it is as well to paint your black a little beyondthe edges of the pattern to allow for this. Etching on metalmight be developed by an ingenious amateur. You couldcover your metal with a soft wax ground similar to thatused by etchers, and then by scratching this away with a. No. 36.—Original Design for Repousse Dish suggested by theSunflower. If desired, the leaves, which come outside the circle,can be modified so as to come within the ciicumference. Theflower forms the
. Art crafts for amateurs . 54 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. The acid has a tendency to eat its way into the edges ofthe design, so it is as well to paint your black a little beyondthe edges of the pattern to allow for this. Etching on metalmight be developed by an ingenious amateur. You couldcover your metal with a soft wax ground similar to thatused by etchers, and then by scratching this away with a. No. 36.—Original Design for Repousse Dish suggested by theSunflower. If desired, the leaves, which come outside the circle,can be modified so as to come within the ciicumference. Theflower forms the hollow of the dish, the centre having holespunched in from the front. fine bradawl or other tool, and applying acid, you can eatin the lines so scratched away. Afterwards you can beat upsome portions from the back. The tool you use to scratchaway the ground should not be too fine, as your lines wantto be coarse enough to tell at a distance. BEATEN METAL WORK OR RETOUSSE. 55 Artistic results are obtainable by very simple means andthe very restraint exercised in good work gives it its is much harder to restrain oneself than let oneself go, andthe tyro should always be on his guard that his love ofbeating up the metal does not run away with him. I saw acopper tray at an exhibition in which the design, consisting
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