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 . Fig. 62.—Showing the Leafing of a Scroll and mannerof Shading to give the appearance of a Bend orTwist. that which gives confidence and a free movement of thepencil, for while the copyist pauses to examine the copyto know what mark to make, he loses the ease and free-dom possessed by the original artist, a
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 . Fig. 62.—Showing the Leafing of a Scroll and mannerof Shading to give the appearance of a Bend orTwist. that which gives confidence and a free movement of thepencil, for while the copyist pauses to examine the copyto know what mark to make, he loses the ease and free-dom possessed by the original artist, and a certain cruditycharacterizes his production. The size and form of thepanel on which the scroll is to be put at once suggests theform of the scroll, and thus a certain amount of originalitywill always be demanded from the scroller. 114 THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER,. Fig. 63.—.4 Shaded Roman Scroll. THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 115 The flat outline of a Roman scroll presents no pleasingform, it is the shade, as shown in Fig. 63, which gives iteffect. The shading must be done in an off-hand manner,as it is not well to retouch the shading color when onceapplied. Some work done in color may be an exceptionto this rule, but in shading gold a retouch of the shadewould be plainly seen, and would mar the beauty of thework. Asphaltum is used as the shading on gold and
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