. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 94.—Decorated Writing Cabinet, the front to be madeto let down. The design is a free treatment of someflowering shrub, though no direct reference to any oneplant is made. As will be noticed, the stems are madean ornamental feature. with. You blob it on and bring out your design by gettingthe gesso on thicker in places as your fancy or copysuggests, and you never reach that state of imbecility whichis arrived at all too soon by the amateur oil-painter. Irecall my own first efforts in the use of oil colour and thehopeless condition I soon got in. There are few mor
. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 94.—Decorated Writing Cabinet, the front to be madeto let down. The design is a free treatment of someflowering shrub, though no direct reference to any oneplant is made. As will be noticed, the stems are madean ornamental feature. with. You blob it on and bring out your design by gettingthe gesso on thicker in places as your fancy or copysuggests, and you never reach that state of imbecility whichis arrived at all too soon by the amateur oil-painter. Irecall my own first efforts in the use of oil colour and thehopeless condition I soon got in. There are few moredifficult things to manage at the outset than oil colours— GESSO. 139 Ruskin said it was the most difficult of all handwork—andto obtain any mastery is a matter of considerable is like modelling in this respect, that many anamateur who cannot paint an object can give an adequaterendering of it in clay or wax, as he can finger and tool theplastic material about until the desired effect is No. 95.—Design for Coffer, with decorated panel and details see No. 96. There are more ornamental possibilities in a craft like gessothan in painting, as is seen by carrying out the same simpledesign both in paint and gesso. It will have a quality andvalue in the latter which it cannot have in the former, unless agreat deal more technical skill is possessed by the painterin oils than the worker in gesso, and this quite apart fromthe uses to which gesso can be put where painting would 140 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. be of small effect. To make this clear, take a picture orother frame, say of oak. We could, by putting some simplerunning-pattern upon it in gesso, break up the flat surfaceof the frame agreeably, and this after very little practice inthe use of our new material; but to obtain a decoration ofequal ornamental value in painting would require a muchlonger apprenticeship, and then, however well it might bepainted, it would not be in relief, and thi
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