. 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. 22.—The Full Block Round Letter. to form the letters geometrically, a mechanical rather thanan artistic appearance is given. An octagon Full Block letter possesses a geometrical equi-librium superior to the Round Letter, but the latter (Fig. 22). Fig. 23.—Showing the Method of Cutting off the Corne
. 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. 22.—The Full Block Round Letter. to form the letters geometrically, a mechanical rather thanan artistic appearance is given. An octagon Full Block letter possesses a geometrical equi-librium superior to the Round Letter, but the latter (Fig. 22). Fig. 23.—Showing the Method of Cutting off the Cornersof Round Letters. is frequently used on good work to give variety. Theseletters are generally made with the lower spurs a trifleheavier than the upper ones, and this is done to give amore solid foundation, although the difference is almost THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 73 imperceptible—and the eye is deceived as it is when look-ing at the letterS, which is much larger in its lower circle than the upper one—(see fright, and>^ wrong side up). The corners are cut off at an angle a very little less thanthe width of the bars of the letter, (see Fig. 23), althoughin the extended letter. (Fig. 24) the corners may be cut offfrom line to Bound Full Block, as before said, may be used to
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