Art Recreations: Being a Complete Guide to Pencil Drawing, Oil Painting ... Moss Work, Papier Mache ... Wax Work, Shell Work ... Enamel Painting, Etc., with Valuable Receipts for Preparing Materials. Splendidly IllustratedJ.E. Tilton, 1860 - 331 σελίδες |
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artist background beautiful bronze brush burnt sienna burnt umber calyx camel's hair carmine Chinese white chrome yellow coat cobalt copal crayon crimson lake dark darker deep chrome delicate directions draperies drawing emerald green Enamel painting engraving face finger finished flesh color flesh tints flowers foliage frame front gamboge gilding give glass glazing gold gray Grecian painting gum arabic high lights imitate inches Indian red Indian yellow indigo isinglass leaf leather leaves lines megilp mixed mold Naples yellow oil painting opaque colors ounces pale palette paper papier mache pearl pearly tints pencil permanent blue petals photograph picture piece pink plaster Prussian blue purple raw sienna require requisite rose madder round scumbling sepia shades shadows side sketch smooth soften style surface touch transparent colors turpentine Vandyke brown vermilion warm wash water color wire wish yellow lake yellow ocher
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Σελίδα 312 - A coating of the smoke will adhere to the leaf. Then remove the leaf carefully, and place the blackened surface on a sheet of white paper, not ruled, or in a book prepared for the purpose, covering the leaf with a clean slip of paper, and pressing upon it with the fingers, or roller, as before. Thus may be obtained the impression of a leaf, showing the perfect outlines, together with an accurate exhibition of the veins which extend in every direction through it, more correctly than the finest drawing....
Σελίδα 273 - Consider the lilies how they grow; they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Σελίδα 312 - ... are so prominent on this side, may receive from the paper a portion of the smoke. Lay a paper over the leaf, and then press it gently upon the smoked paper, with the fingers, or with a small roller, (covered with...
Σελίδα 312 - Thus may be obtained the impression of a leaf, showing the perfect outlines, together with an accurate exhibition of the veins which extend in every direction through it, more correctly than the finest drawing. And this process is so simple, and the materials so easily obtained, that any person, with a little practice to enable him to apply the right quantity of smoke to the oil paper and give the leaf a proper pressure, can prepare beautiful leaf impressions, such as a naturalist would be proud...
Σελίδα 313 - When this very delicate process is attempted, blotting paper should be laid under every part excepting the blossoms, in order to prevent staining the white paper. Great care must be taken to keep preserved specimens in a dry place...
Σελίδα 313 - ... blotting paper it answers the purpose equally well with plants of almost every variety of hue and thickness. In compound flowers, with those also of a stubborn and solid form, as the Centaurea, some little art is required in cutting away the under part, by which means the profile and forms of the flowers will be more distinctly exhibited. This is especially necessary, when the method employed by Major Velley is adopted ; viz., to fix the flowers and fructification down with gum upon the paper...
Σελίδα 27 - EVERYTHING that you can see, in the world around you, presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colours variously shaded.* Some of these patches of * (NB This note is only for the satisfaction of incredulous or curious readers.
Σελίδα 189 - White and Naples Yellow. White, Vermilion, and Light Red. Gray, Pearly, and Half Tints. White, Vermilion, and Black. White and Terre Verte. White, Black, Indian Red, and Raw Umber. Deep Shades. Light Red and Raw Umber. Indian Red, Lake, and Black. Carnations. White and Indian Red, (powerful color.) White and Rose Madder. White and Lake. HAIR. Light Hair. White and Yellow Ocher. White and Roman Ocher. White and Vandyke Brown, for the dark parts. White and Raw Umber for the dark parts.
Σελίδα 296 - After they are taken out of the dye, rinse them two or three times in clear cold water (except the red), which must only be done once. Then lay them on a tray, over which a cloth has been spread, before a good fire ; when they begin to dry and unfold, draw each feather gently between your thumb and finger, until it regains its proper shape.