. Art crafts for amateurs . d than asbunches of fruit, no artificial motifs, as the wreaths and rib-bons, are imported into the scheme; and yet in the samebreath I must confess to a fondness for the festoon,which is certainly a conceit. There is no more difficult subject to write about thandesign. Its principles, if it has any, elude analysis, while asfor professing to teach it, I would as lief attempt to make apoet. You might produce a versifier and you might teacha student a certain number of conceits in design, butdesigning is as much a mental attribute as an ear for musicIt is directed by
. Art crafts for amateurs . d than asbunches of fruit, no artificial motifs, as the wreaths and rib-bons, are imported into the scheme; and yet in the samebreath I must confess to a fondness for the festoon,which is certainly a conceit. There is no more difficult subject to write about thandesign. Its principles, if it has any, elude analysis, while asfor professing to teach it, I would as lief attempt to make apoet. You might produce a versifier and you might teacha student a certain number of conceits in design, butdesigning is as much a mental attribute as an ear for musicIt is directed by feeling and intuition, and conditioned byour point of view, and cannot be taught, though variousbooks profess to do so. Still, as I have just endeavouredto show, there is no mystery about it, and anyone can start toadapt some natural form to suit the shape of the article andthe method employed in producing it, and by degrees hewill gain confidence and cultivate an eye for agreeable lines,curves, and shapes. WOOD CARVING. 3i. 32 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. Hand-cunning, however, can be taught, and I wouldrecommend any one wishing for instruction in the use oftools, and how to set about carving, to get a few lessons ofa practical carver, and then work on, beginning with simplework like the vine, No. 7, in which the grounding out isthe most important part of the work, the actual carvingbeing confined to taking down a form coming under anotherone, and here and there taking out a vein in the leaves
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