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Title: The painters' encyclopædia. Containing 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
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.)
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York, M.T. Richardson
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Fig. 132.—Design for a Flat Scroll. scroll. Procure some common asphaltum and avery little burnt sienna, thin them, when mixedtogether with turpentine, and with a short-hairedcamels pencil Jay in the shades as shown in theengravings, putting it on very thin, and repeatingthe washing of shade until the darkest partsare dark enough and all blend off into the gold SCROLL PAINTING. 343 without showing the connection. Next uponthose parts and edges where the light is supposedto fall, put fine lines of cream color and others onthe prominent lights, of white.
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Fig. 133.—Design for a Flat Scroll. The Roman scroll having received attention atour hands, we will now look at the Flat Scroll.This description of scrolling or ornamentation isnowadays very fashionable on railway cars, par-ticularly for head linings; they are similar tothose commonly employed by fresco-painters. 344 SCRUBS. There are three modes of putting- on these scrolls,the first and simplest being in plain gold, with noshades or lights; the second, in various colors;the third in colors and gold, but with no shading.Remember that flat scrolling is accompanied byshading, which latter is peculiar to scrolling inrelief. Much of the work of flat scrolling is donewith a pencil in the same manner as scroll strip-ing (g. v.). But little information can be given in writingconcerning the designing of flat scrolls. Sufficeis to say, the patterns are infinite in number andvariet)T, ranging from the simplest curves up toelaborate combinations of curves and straightlines. The beginner shoul

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