. Art crafts for amateurs . s. worked with advantage. Files are used for this purpose,and if the surface is too smooth a certain texture is givenit by filing. This, of course, must be done with knowledgeand discretion, and you had better only file away any roughplaces or defects, and leave the casting alone, than tinker atit and so spoil it. After all it is the art that one pays for in all fine work, andsuch articles as jewellery, table ornaments, etc., might wellengage the amateurs attention, for even if he have his workcast in silver, at the present price, some 2s. 3d. per oz., it so ART CRA
. Art crafts for amateurs . s. worked with advantage. Files are used for this purpose,and if the surface is too smooth a certain texture is givenit by filing. This, of course, must be done with knowledgeand discretion, and you had better only file away any roughplaces or defects, and leave the casting alone, than tinker atit and so spoil it. After all it is the art that one pays for in all fine work, andsuch articles as jewellery, table ornaments, etc., might wellengage the amateurs attention, for even if he have his workcast in silver, at the present price, some 2s. 3d. per oz., it so ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. would not be a ruinous outlay, while in bronze the cost ofmetal is trifling: and to see any work that one has wroughtentirely oneself gives a pang of pleasure that must beexperienced to be realised. The mere fact that your workis made permanent in silver or bronze gives it a qualityand value that you never dreamed it possessed in its waxor clay state. The portion of a frieze shown in No. 55 is an admirable. No. 56.—Calendar, Louis XV. Design in Silver by Frank Lutiger. -example of a surface decorated in low relief. The work isconcentrated, and the flat portion of the panel is rightlyvalued. The suggestion of water is very happily given, andthe restraint of the whole design evinces much taste andknowledge. It points a moral to the tyro, the need ofkeeping oneself well in hand, and not being too boisterousin ones efforts j but checking the impulse to cover everypart of the surface with work, know how to confine it tocertain places where it tells with due effect. CLA Y MODELLING. 8t The calendar, No. 56, is in strong contrast to the rest ofthe illustrations to this chapter, and it is well that all stylesshould be represented in these pages, for though thisso-called Renaissance work makes no strong appeal to me,I quite acknowledge that much skill is shown in designingsuch an example as that given. My chief objection is thatone is so fettered by the arbitrary sty
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