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 . lines of letters, before risking him-self on a unknown journey, the headway ofthe road would be seriously interfered on such work the Gothic letter is exten-sively used. The painter
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 . lines of letters, before risking him-self on a unknown journey, the headway ofthe road would be seriously interfered on such work the Gothic letter is exten-sively used. The painter knows this style betterby the name of Block, and he has the FullBlock and Half Block, plain or ornamented,to choose from. Then there is another style, call-ed also by some block, but the proper name of LETTERING. 199 which is Antique. These forms of letters have,of late years, been twisted into every conceivableshape so that their identity is almost lost. So great a number of st3^1es present themselvesthat we forego all thought of illustrating themand will leave the reader to choose a style fromthe myriads of examples, while we describe how thework is done. The tools necessary for doing lettering are notnumerous, and the whole outfit may be carriedin the pocket, if need be. A palette (q. v.) maybe made which folds together in halves, as shownin the engraving, by simply adding a pair of small. Fig. 37.—Concord Style of Lettering for ExpressWagons. brass hinges and a wooden button after the pal-ette has been cut through its centre. A rest-stickmay be made in sections, using- the brass ferrulesof a fishing-pole. A pair of dividers, and a boxcontaining pencils is all that will be necessary tocarry from place to place. The pencils for letter-ing should be of the best quality, and alwaysbe kept well greased and straight when not in pencils are decidedly the best for eitherpaint or gold-size, and these are described undertheir appropriate head. The paint used should
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