Above all, simplicity should be studied in decorating any article with
flowers ; but the simplest design should be so true to nature that it can-
not but be beautiful.
304 PAINTING.
PASTEL OR COLORED CRAYON.
If you are sufficiently accurate in sketching, you can, with charcoal,
or lead pencil, make a correct outline on pastel paper. For this kind
of painting you will want crayon, fine sponge, stump, and a piece of
kid. Use the sharp folded corners in shading. Always commence
painting with the dark shades, and blend with a stump or finger gradu-
ally into the light. For darker shades use black, then go over with
brown, and blend together. Put in the light shades as they belong,
with soft and medium crayons, using the utmost care in blending with
stump, to avoid a dingy and dirty appearance. Finish the picture with
hard crayon, laying on in lines and blending with stump. Do not
expect to have the right thing by simply laying on the colors once ; you
must work line over line very carefully and many times. You must
exercise great care that the picture does not become soiled in the deli-
cate parts.
Pastel is well adapted for landscape drawing. The most useful
colors are white, straw and light yellow, deep orange and yellow and
brown ochre hues ; blue — bright azure tints of varied strength, pale and
dark ; grays, pale and deep : and neutral, warm tones ; red, vermilion
tint, pale and middle Indian red.
Drawing in pastel is much easier than oil painting. One advantage
over oil and water colors is the facility with which a picture can be
completed ; this is manifest in out-door sketching, or upon any subject
of which you wish a few memoranda and have but little time to obtain
them.
The advantage of working with pastel does away with the tedious-
ness of waiting the drying of oil and water colors.
POTICHIMANIE.
This is the art of imitating painting on glass or china. The most
beautiful of the Chinese, porcelain, Sevres, Japanese or Etruscan vases
can be so closely imitated that none not connoisseurs can discover, at
first sight, the difference. The work is attractive and very simple ; the
materials employed are few and inexpensive. This is very fascinating
work, and, though the pottery mania has been carried to an excess, this
is much different, besides being more durable.
First, select some plain glass vases, resembling in shape and size the
particular style of china you wish to represent. Select your colored
figures, representing the style of life you wish to imitate. Let them be
rich and clear in their colors. You will need two or three small brushes,
such as painters use, some strong gum-water, and a bottle of varnish.
Use paint for the groundwork of the color you wish to represent. The
ground color of the Chinese porcelain is, in general, a greenish white \
POTICHIMANIA. 305
the Sevres, a bluish white ; while the Etruscan is a pale yellow. These
three colors are generally all that are wanted. A delicate pink is some-
times used.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Above all, simplicity should be studied in decorating any article with flowers ; but the simplest design should be so true to nature that it cannot but be beautiful.
PASTEL OR COLORED CRAYON.
If you are sufficiently accurate in sketching, you can, with charcoal, or lead pencil, make a correct outline on pastel paper. For this kind of painting you will want crayon, fine sponge, stump, and a piece of kid. Use the sharp folded corners in shading. Always commence painting with the dark shades, and blend with a stump or finger gradually into the light. For darker shades use black, then go over with brown, and blend together. Put in the light shades as they belong, with soft and medium crayons, using the utmost care in blending with stump, to avoid a dingy and dirty appearance. Finish the picture with hard crayon, laying on in lines and blending with stump. Do not expect to have the right thing by simply laying on the colors once ; you must work line over line very carefully and many times. You must exercise great care that the picture does not become soiled in the delicate parts.
Pastel is well adapted for landscape drawing. The most useful colors are white, straw and light yellow, deep orange and yellow and brown ochre hues ; blue — bright azure tints of varied strength, pale and dark ; grays, pale and deep : and neutral, warm tones ; red, vermilion tint, pale and middle Indian red.
Drawing in pastel is much easier than oil painting. One advantage over oil and water colors is the facility with which a picture can be completed ; this is manifest in out-door sketching, or upon any subject of which you wish a few memoranda and have but little time to obtain them.
The advantage of working with pastel does away with the tediousness of waiting the drying of oil and water colors.
POTICHIMANIA.
This is the art of imitating painting on glass or china. The most beautiful of the Chinese, porcelain, Sevres, Japanese or Etruscan vases can be so closely imitated that none not connoisseurs can discover, at first sight, the difference. The work is attractive and very simple ; the materials employed are few and inexpensive. This is very fascinating work, and, though the pottery mania has been carried to an excess, this is much different, besides being more durable.
First, select some plain glass vases, resembling in shape and size the particular style of china you wish to represent. Select your colored figures, representing the style of life you wish to imitate. Let them be rich and clear in their colors. You will need two or three small brushes, such as painters use, some strong gum-water, and a bottle of varnish. Use paint for the groundwork of the color you wish to represent. The ground color of the Chinese porcelain is, in general, a greenish white \
POTICHIMANIA. 305
the Sevres, a bluish white ; while the Etruscan is a pale yellow. These three colors are generally all that are wanted. A delicate pink is sometimes used.