. 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 . t; squares of the capitals in 5320 Fig. 55.—Showing Four Properly Balanced Figures. height, and the long letters such as b, d, f, h, k and 1, runup to the full five squares, while g j, p, q, and y run belowan equal distance, making either letter five squares inheight. All letters should have a perfect b
. 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 . t; squares of the capitals in 5320 Fig. 55.—Showing Four Properly Balanced Figures. height, and the long letters such as b, d, f, h, k and 1, runup to the full five squares, while g j, p, q, and y run belowan equal distance, making either letter five squares inheight. All letters should have a perfect balance, that is, if theywere cut out of a block they could be set upon their here illustrate a few figures to show this feature (see ) as well as to illustrate three of the most difficult fig-ures to make, so that they will be evenly balanced, name-ly, 5, 3 and 2. CHAPTER XII. SHADING. Again we are called upon to deplore the inroads madeby sign and show card letterers. It was formerly thecustom to shade all letters on the right side and bottom,except in the case of the sunk-bottom of cars, when the shadewas thrown on the top and right side. But now we seethe shade frequently put upon the left of the letter (it iseasier to do, they say), which entirely breaks the charac-. Fig. 56.—Showing an Octagon Half Block with a SingleShade Blocked. teristic of the wagon letterer. There may be a few signwriters who can letter a wagon according to rule, but, as ageneral thing, their work falls below the standard. We show in Fig. 56 an octagon half-block with a singleshade, blocked, i, e., made darker on the bottom than on(he sides. This may be 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 may-be 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.
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