. Art crafts for amateurs . with, is what a decorative artist should develope, and tothis can be added the faculty of making patterns andshapes of all that comes within his purview. Mr. Walter Cranes use of the cockatoo in No. 150 is lesselemental, but is far removed from a natural history draw-ing, and shows treatment and selection, the blending of thewings, and the planning of the birds so that they presentan ornamental shape in the scheme, fits them for their placein the wall-paper, though it is just a question whether formsso emphatic, and even naturalistic, bear the repetition that awall-
. Art crafts for amateurs . with, is what a decorative artist should develope, and tothis can be added the faculty of making patterns andshapes of all that comes within his purview. Mr. Walter Cranes use of the cockatoo in No. 150 is lesselemental, but is far removed from a natural history draw-ing, and shows treatment and selection, the blending of thewings, and the planning of the birds so that they presentan ornamental shape in the scheme, fits them for their placein the wall-paper, though it is just a question whether formsso emphatic, and even naturalistic, bear the repetition that awall-paper exacts. Mr. Voysey makes his owls much morepart of the fabric of the design—the owls themselves, as weobserved, are quite elemental—and the repetition as a resultbecomes less tiresome. The illustrations teach one lesson, at any rate, and thatis, that between the photographs from life, say No 144, andthe owl adapted to a decorators requirements, as in , there is pretty wide interval. CHAPTER XII. Cutting and Designing. TENCILLING is one of the most usefulmethods that can be employed to quicklyornament a flat surface, and as anamateur can soon both learn to cut anduse a stencil, I will briefly give a fewhints on both branches of the subject,which, taken in connection with the illus-trations will, I trust, make the method clear. A stencil plate is a perforated sheet of metal or paper,and to obtain an impression we have only to rub over thecut out portions with a stiff brush and colour, upon any flatsurface we may lay the stencil. For all ordinary work, goodthick drawing paper is the best material to cut, but I haveused lead foil, and many stencils are cut out of zinc ; butthese latter have to be cut by a professional cutter, so wewill confine ourselves to paper. Draw your pattern on thepaper, and then with a sharp-pointed knife cut through thiscleanly and at one stroke of the knife, working upon a sheetof glass. The reason for cutting on glass is that
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