. Art crafts for amateurs . in much the same way as I have alreadydescribed; though, from what I remember, the Spanishleathers are blind-tooled in front. Of course the workshould be freer and the designs bolder than in a book cover. As regards thecolouring, two planscan be adopted : todye or stain theleather, or paint itsolidly in ordinary oilcolour. The formerplan is certainly thebetter adapted to thematerial, as it seemsa pity to loose thesurface of the leather,which you do if youpaint it, though thiswas the plan adoptedin the old Spanish leathers. The transparent colours usedby artists coul
. Art crafts for amateurs . in much the same way as I have alreadydescribed; though, from what I remember, the Spanishleathers are blind-tooled in front. Of course the workshould be freer and the designs bolder than in a book cover. As regards thecolouring, two planscan be adopted : todye or stain theleather, or paint itsolidly in ordinary oilcolour. The formerplan is certainly thebetter adapted to thematerial, as it seemsa pity to loose thesurface of the leather,which you do if youpaint it, though thiswas the plan adoptedin the old Spanish leathers. The transparent colours usedby artists could be employed, thinned with turpentine, towhich is added a very little hard dry varnish, such as amberor copal. Prussian blue, cobalt green, terre verte, viridian,gamboge, raw and burnt sienna, madder brown, Indianyellow, and golden ochre are among some of the mostuseful. If solid colours be used they should be mixedwith varnish and floated on freely, and not be touchedafter they have begun to set. Your scheme of colour, i. with incising and embossing. ii4 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. therefore, must be decided upon, and your manipulationmust be rapid,as when these varnish colours get tacky, it isalmost impossible touse them. Semi-solid colour could beintroduced in spots, say the flowers of a design, or in theone I give, No. 78, the bird, animals, snake, and frog couldbe slightly heightened with white or cream used trans-parently. The leaves could be in rich varied greens, madeof Prussian blue, raw sienna, golden ochre, gamboge, orIndian yellow, in varying proportions, and the stems inmadder brown. The animals^should be in high relief, and the leavesmight be incised at the edges, while the stems and ribsdown centre of each leaf could be tooled on. The back-ground could have its surface broken up by being punchedover with disc punches; and they should not be as small asthose used on a book cover, as the surface to be decoratedis so much greater. The foliage part of the design, as wi
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