. Art crafts for amateurs . t reason is well fitted for displaying the qualitiesof gesso. The leaves can be just heightened with the gesso—accented as it were, rather than modelled in it. Theberries in the fruits, again, can each be put in in gesso, whilethe cup can be more pronounced than the leaves whichfill out the space, so as to give prominence to this feature inthe design. Breadth of effect is obtained by giving promi-nence to some parts of the design, while other parts arethrown away, or left. A design, therefore, which lookssomewhat confused on paper, need not necessarily be so GESSO.
. Art crafts for amateurs . t reason is well fitted for displaying the qualitiesof gesso. The leaves can be just heightened with the gesso—accented as it were, rather than modelled in it. Theberries in the fruits, again, can each be put in in gesso, whilethe cup can be more pronounced than the leaves whichfill out the space, so as to give prominence to this feature inthe design. Breadth of effect is obtained by giving promi-nence to some parts of the design, while other parts arethrown away, or left. A design, therefore, which lookssomewhat confused on paper, need not necessarily be so GESSO. 155 when carried out full size, as we can simplify it by the way wereproduce it. This remark applies with particular force tothe all-over repeating design founded upon the wild-rose,No. 101, which looks, I am afraid, owing to its reduction, veryconfused. But if the flowers and berries are wrought in highrelief, and the stems and leaves little more than outlined oraccented with gesso, this confusion would, I think, largely. No. 103.—Panel in fibrous plaster, beiore colouring. Executedfor the Trocadero Restaurant by Messrs. Gerald Moira andF. Lynn Jenkins. disappear. Here again nature is merely adapted, and certainfeatures, such as the bracts at base of leaves and flower-stalks,dwelt upon and developed ornamentally. In carrying out adesign which has to be repeated many times, stencillingmight be employed, together with work by hand. Theleaves, flowers and berries might be stencilled, while thestems and other details could be painted on. 154 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. The two figure-panels, No. 93, are reproductions ofthree panels in a pulpit in Teddington Church, designedand executed by Mr. Reginald Hallvvard. The material used by moulders for the decoration ofpicture frames is made of whiting soaked in very dilutedglue, gelatine, boiled linseed oil, and resin. To save thetrouble of making it, most frame-makers would sell a would-be worker some of the composition. It must be us
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