The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for mixing colors . Fig. Q\.—The Line of Beauty. variably be found too fine or too delicately shaded to aupply the want of a wagon painter. THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAUON PAINTER. 113 Fig. 62 shows the leafing of a scroll, and the manner ofshading to give the appearance of a bend or twist, and inthis lesson the student will


The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for mixing colors . Fig. Q\.—The Line of Beauty. variably be found too fine or too delicately shaded to aupply the want of a wagon painter. THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAUON PAINTER. 113 Fig. 62 shows the leafing of a scroll, and the manner ofshading to give the appearance of a bend or twist, and inthis lesson the student will iind employment for a longperiod, for he should memorize the form, and every lineof shade so that without a copy he can make a similarpattern. Originality of design is of importance, and u is. Fig. 62.—Showing the Leafing of a Scroll and mannerof Shading to give the appearance of a Bend orTwist. that which gives confidence and a free movement of thepencil, for while the copyist pauses to examine the copyto know what mark to make, he loses the ease and free-dom possessed by the original artist, and a certain cruditycharacterizes his production. The size and form of thepanel on which the scroll is to be put at once suggests theform of the scroll, and thus a certain amount of originalitywill always be demanded from the scroller. 114 THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER,


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