Identifier: artcraftsforamat00mill (find matches)
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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transparent colours. The colouring ofgesso is a much less exacting task than painting, as thework in relief plays such an important role in the finishedresult. Those who are not accomplished oil painters woulddelight in colouring a gesso panel. You should not wishto lose the crispness of the gesso, and it is obvious, there-fore, that one must avoid painting thickly. At the outsetthe beginner should have a panel, and use it for experi-mental work, getting used to the medium first of all, andthen he can try colouring it in various ways, and so learnthe direction his efforts should take. Gilding is a help togesso, and with a little practice the amateur can get suffi-ciently expert to be able to use gold leaf with much effect GESSO. M5 for touching up and accenting parts of the design. This canafterwards be coloured with transparent colours, so that thegold shows through. This is a very different business togilding a flat surface, which requires much practice toaccomplish successfully. A
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No. 98.—Design for a Stool or a Coal-box, decorated with ornamentsuggested by Venetian work of the sixteenth century. The top andsides (showing how the front should be made to let down) are shown.Gilding could be introduced with considerable effect. suggest themselves that I had better devote a little space tothis subject, and it will also afford me an opportunity ofsaying something about the illustrations I have drawn toaccompany these notes. Let me repeat here, what I have L ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. had occasion to say in former chapters, that these illus-trations must be looked upon as pictorial notes or practicaldiagrams, for they in no sense represent the effect of gesso.This can only be seen in the figure panels, which werephotographed from actual work. No. 94 is a small Cabinet, the front of which might bemade to let down to serve as a writing slope, while theinside could be fitted with divisions for papers, etc. Thedecoration is a free treatment of foliage somewhat highlyorn

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