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 . ingleshade, Nocked, i, e., made darker on the bottom than onthe Rides. This may bp done by shading with vermilion THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 105 on the sides and ends, then glazing the bottom with car-mine. Fig. 57 shows a double shade blocked. This maybe done by shading the sides vermilion,
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 . ingleshade, Nocked, i, e., made darker on the bottom than onthe Rides. This may bp done by shading with vermilion THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 105 on the sides and ends, then glazing the bottom with car-mine. Fig. 57 shows a double shade blocked. This maybe done by shading the sides vermilion, the bottom Indianred, and then running on the second shade over each,covering one-half the width with carmine. It should beremembered that the darkest shade always comes nearestthe letter. On gold lettering the shade always touches theedge of th i gold, but in paint letters a space is left betweenthe letter and shade, see Fig. 58. The shade never lookswell if made wider than the bars of the letter, and theangles formed by the end of the shade should be uniform,and should be determined by the angle of the square—generally forty-five degrees. However, the shade is some-times made wider on the bottom than on the sides, and thenthe angle will be inclined more nearly to a Fig. 57.—Showing a Double Shade. Blocked. Shading should be done in the same manner through-out a piece of work ; that is, if one line be shaded on theright side, all lines on the job must be done so. On redgrounds, gold letters are generally shaded with black, andthen the double shade is made by extending the width of 106 THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. the shade, by running a carmine gkize outside of the colors employed in shading shouid Jiannonize withthe colors of the letter and of the groundwork. Here thetaste of the painter is called into play, for if the colors arenot harmonious—no matter how well formed the lettersmay be—the result will not be satisfactory. Gold le
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