. Art crafts for amateurs . substitute leaves. The panelon the other side might have a squirrel or birds, like thenuthatch, for it is an indication of mental poverty to repeatsuch emphatic forms as birds. You may repeat forms whichnearly approach pure ornament, but not such forms asbirds, which, as a rule, are introduced to give variety to thedesign, nor should the flowers be repeated, for it is so easyto select a fresh one for each space. Personally, I like the introduction of animal forms incarving : I prefer them, indeed, to the human figure, becausetoo often the latter is so badly done—an
. Art crafts for amateurs . substitute leaves. The panelon the other side might have a squirrel or birds, like thenuthatch, for it is an indication of mental poverty to repeatsuch emphatic forms as birds. You may repeat forms whichnearly approach pure ornament, but not such forms asbirds, which, as a rule, are introduced to give variety to thedesign, nor should the flowers be repeated, for it is so easyto select a fresh one for each space. Personally, I like the introduction of animal forms incarving : I prefer them, indeed, to the human figure, becausetoo often the latter is so badly done—an insult to man, infact. Gibbons and his contemporaries were fond of intro-ducing angels heads, and very beautifully they carved them. ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. Those on the choir stalls at Cockayne Hatley Church,No. 15, are exquisitely wrought, though the drawing onlyindicates the main features of the carving. The treatmentof the wings is particularly happy, and might, to a skilfulcarver, suggest a treatment of chair No. 22.— Picture Frame after the style of Grinling Eighteenth Century. My advice to amateurs is, dont attempt the human figureunless you feel up to it; keep to foliage and ornament untilyou can venture on an animal form, and then if you feelconfident in your powers essay a childs head, and then be WOOD CARVING. 37 sure and make a few studies from a living child. Onesculptor I know finds photographs of children very usefulin modelling heads. I should say that Reynolds AngelsHeads in the National Gallery, and, indeed, his childrengenerally, would be still more helpful, as the painter hassimplified nature in his paintings, which would be a distincthelp to the carver, for your carved head should be theantithesis of a wax doll, which attempts to give a counter-feit or imitation of nature. You are carving a piece ofwood shaped like a hexd, and this needs treatment, or howare you going to render the hair ? for this cannot be imitatedany more than th
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