Fairchild's rapid letterer and show-card maker, commercial alphabet construction with brush or pen . s. THE air-brush sprayed over the stencil figure E in a lightgreen color gives you the effect shown in illustration The second stencil, F (see third page), placed over No. 4and sprayed with a dark green color, producing the effectshown in figure and the completed wreath is shown infigure C by adding various berries, brush marks for stems andhigh lights in the red berries, finally adding a scarlet bow-knot, with flowing ends. You will soon learn to make all kinds of stencils, whichwi
Fairchild's rapid letterer and show-card maker, commercial alphabet construction with brush or pen . s. THE air-brush sprayed over the stencil figure E in a lightgreen color gives you the effect shown in illustration The second stencil, F (see third page), placed over No. 4and sprayed with a dark green color, producing the effectshown in figure and the completed wreath is shown infigure C by adding various berries, brush marks for stems andhigh lights in the red berries, finally adding a scarlet bow-knot, with flowing ends. You will soon learn to make all kinds of stencils, whichwill produce massed colored effects, with wonderful instance, if you wish to show a cone-shaped Christmastree on each side of the card, you first cut out a cone-shapedopening with the trunk of the tree slightly slanting spraying with a light green on this design on a card onboth spaces, with the design near the edges, you will have the foundationof a tree. Byi tracing yourcut-out on an-other card andcutting out onlyopenings at va-rious intervals,none of themwider than one-. 96 FAIRCHILDS RAPID LETTEREE 97 quarter of an inch, beginningat the center and slantinggradually outward to the edge,so that they narrow to aneighth inch. You then cut outthese spaces, and place yourstencil over the first one, spray-ing it in dark green. By remov-ing your stencil and filling inthe trunk with a dark brownon one side and gradually shading it to a light brown on theother, adding a few brown strokes through the body of thetree for branches, you will have an effect that is extremelypleasing. You then place your lettering in the space betweenthe trees and have an attractive window sign. First we show a stencil cut-out, Holiday Gifts, and thelast engraving illustrates the same sprayed on a card with anair-brush. Theopen spaces areafterward filledin with a regularbrush. This sten-cil can also beused by follow-ing the outlineswith a pointedlead pencil andthen filling in assugge
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