. The air brush in photography, incorporating a progressive series of lessons . y, increasing the color in theshadows to give form and roundness as in Figure 31-A. This done,remove all the frisket paper and cement, and sketch in the fiowerswith a black china-marking pencil (if print is black and white) blow-ing in the shadows afterwards with a fine spray from the Air the print is a sepia use a Blaisdell sepia pencil No. 155, for sketch-ing in the flowers. This is a very good pencil for this kind of work. The shadows in the draperies should now be blown in with a finespray, so as to gi
. The air brush in photography, incorporating a progressive series of lessons . y, increasing the color in theshadows to give form and roundness as in Figure 31-A. This done,remove all the frisket paper and cement, and sketch in the fiowerswith a black china-marking pencil (if print is black and white) blow-ing in the shadows afterwards with a fine spray from the Air the print is a sepia use a Blaisdell sepia pencil No. 155, for sketch-ing in the flowers. This is a very good pencil for this kind of work. The shadows in the draperies should now be blown in with a finespray, so as to give a good soft drapery effect, such as that shown inFigure 31-B. The reader will very readily come to the conclusion that to workup a dozen prints in this manner would place a prohibitive price onthem, but this is not the case for the reason that one can make up theoriginal picture on a smooth surfaced paper and obtain a good copy,after which an ordinary vignette is made and the prints finished onlinen surfaced paper, which breaks up practically all of the copyingeffect. 107. Chapter XXXVIIILesson Thirty-One HE first thing- to be considered when beginning to work inbackgrounds with the Air Brush is a suitable place towork. The best system is to have the negative placed on aneasel before a good north light with ground glass behindthe opening for negative, with all light excluded exceptthat which illuminates the negative. The working of backgrounds with the Air Brush is a rapid andsimple method if one has been attentive to the previous lessons so thatthe brush can be controlled with ease. The simplest form of filling in a background and the best foithe beginner is one in which the figured ground that was used inmaking the picture was placed in too much shadow and therefore onlya perceptible outline of the ground appears on the negative. Theground from such a negative naturally prints pure black, which isanything but pleasing, therefore one should strengthen the high lightsand ble
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