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 . nownthey need no description, and then there are the straight-edge, rule, compasses, chalk and a piece of string. Thepencils should be of black sable-hair, either in quills ortin. The hair should be about one inch long. The pencil,when dipped in turpentine or paint, should present a finepoint, and when spr
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 . nownthey need no description, and then there are the straight-edge, rule, compasses, chalk and a piece of string. Thepencils should be of black sable-hair, either in quills ortin. The hair should be about one inch long. The pencil,when dipped in turpentine or paint, should present a finepoint, and when spread upon the work should assume asquare or flat end, that corners may be easily formed. Camels hair pencils answer a very good purpose, but are 108 THE COMPLETE CARKIAUE AND WAGON PAENTEK. not so good as a well 4 broke in sable. Fine liners may bemade by cutting the hair from a large pencil and fasten-ing it in a small quill. The point used for lettering is generally oil-color, that iscolor mixed with just enough oil to render it easy-work-ing. Tube colors are not suitable for lettering, as beforeexplained in striping. Quick color may be used when ajob is hurried, but it is apt to show laps and brush marks. We present here, in Fig. 59, some illustrations of variousmethods of
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