The painters' encyclopædiaContaining definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ..and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used . Fig. 122. Fig. 123. Lesson 3.—For this work the paint should be quitethin and semi-transparent, and a tint of green,will perhaps look well, so mixing some keg leadand turpentine, and adding a drop
The painters' encyclopædiaContaining definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ..and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used . Fig. 122. Fig. 123. Lesson 3.—For this work the paint should be quitethin and semi-transparent, and a tint of green,will perhaps look well, so mixing some keg leadand turpentine, and adding a drop of chromegreen, then a few drops of quick varnish, we. Fig. 124. Fig. 125. Fig. 126. Fig. 127. begin ; with the transparent paint, each mark ofthe pencil as it is twisted around will leave uponthe work lines of light and heavy color, formingbeautiful shades, and giving to each leaf and steman effect not easily produced by other means. Itmust be understood that one mark of the pencil issufficient to produce the desired effect, and if the 338 SCROLL PAINTING. work be retouched, all beautiful lines will beeffaced. With the small camels-hair pencil layon with one sweep, a mark as shown in Fig. 124;forming- the foundation or main portion of a by adding- the two points shown in Fig-. 125,and the additional point shown in Fig-. 126, a fullleaf will be formed, and by repeating- these leaves,if properly placed, a very handsome scroll may bemade. The extension of a leaf is shown in ; in which we begin to see something- thatlooks scrolly. These are the main features of ascroll pattern, and if the student will practice aswe have show
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