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Title: Art crafts for amateurs
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Fred, decorative artist
Subjects: Decorative arts Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York, London, Truslove, Hanson & Comba, Ld.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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he wood first, and this can be done with glue thinned downwith boiling water. Of course, the size must be allowed todry before applying the gesso. Mr. Hallward, who worksa good deal in this material, tells me that he relies uponthe brush almost entirely. He takes the gesso up in arather long-haired brush (a rigger), and lets it flow out onto the panel, and this gives a certain blobby/; quality tothe decoration which makes it differ from stained plaster orother work in relief. The worker merely repeats theoperation where he requires higher relief until it is obtained.Of course, there is a limit to the amount of relief thatshould be attempted, for the worker must remember that heis not a sculptor carving a bas-relief, but a decoratorpainting in relief, and his work should therefore be franklywhat it is, work in gesso, and hot a bastard sort of carving.A material called Denoline can be purchased in tinswhich makes very good gesso, and saves the trouble ofmaking a composition for oneself.
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M2 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. Gesso can be tooled up with sharp instruments, andscraped down and otherwise manipulated, and if sharpnessof contour is desired then the knife can be used freely. Where any considerable amount of relief is desiredcotton-wool or fibre should be soaked in the gesso andstuck on the surface, and the form built up in this way, aswhen this foundation has dried more gesso can be paintedon if a better surface is required. The wool keeps the gessohollow to some extent, and there is then no danger of itcracking as it dries. What is known as a brush-work design, such as No.94, suits gesso, as by holding the brush upright the gessocan be made to flow from it pretty freely, so that thework has a spontaneous appearance. Scrolls, curves, andcontinuous forms made up of curves, can be rapidly putin after a little practice. A round, long camel-hair pencil,not too small, does well for general work, as it holds alot of gesso, and a good deal of effect can be obtainedby just pr

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