Art Recreations: Being a Complete Guide to Pencil Drawing, Oil Painting ... Moss Work, Papier Mache ... Wax Work, Shell Work ... Enamel Painting, Etc., ... Preparing Materials. Splendidly Illustrated by Levina Buoncuore Urbino

Author:Levina Buoncuore Urbino [Levina Buoncuore Urbino]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J.E. Tilton
Published: 2018-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

When white spots appear on the background of the photograph, stipple them in with a color that assimilates to it, and then proceed as usual. When the spots are black, you may take them out with a piece of glass paper, and finish as above.

Tinting Glass Positives, Daguerreotype Plates, etc.

— Photographic powder colors are most frequently used for the above purpose, and they are applied to the picture in a dry state with sable pencils; camel-hair pencils being employed for softening, and bringing the work into form and character.

Begin by breathing lightly upon the surface of the portrait, and dip your pencil into the bottle containing the flesh color, and work in a circular direction, pressing gently upon the glass, to cause the color to adhere — the breathing is for the same purpose; then blow off the superfluous powder with an India-rubber bottle. As the color approaches the outline, soften it off with gray, and be careful to preserve the roundness of the cheeks and forehead which is observable in nature, by keeping the high lights in the center, and graduating the flesh tints into the grays and shadows. Next put in the darkest parts of the draperies and hair. When engaged upon the latter, cause your pencil to move in a wavy manner, as the hair flows. The lights are to be laid in last, with the colors provided for that purpose, and be particular not to soil them with the shadow tints, keeping them as bright as possible. Proceed in the same way with all the other colors, and if the tints contained in the bottles be too powerful for your picture, you can reduce them with white, which bears the same relationship to powder colors that water does to the ordinary cakes. When at work, have a piece of black cloth or velvet on the reverse side, which will show up the head to advantage. The same process as the above is applicable to daguerreotype portraits and paper pictures, the breathing on the plate, and the varnishing, alone excepted.

Hitherto glass positives have only been tinted in the manner described, and which the veriest tyro in the arts may accomplish with ease. Artists have given very little attention to the subject, believing that glass pictures would never be much esteemed by the public, because they are taken upon such a brittle material; but in consequence of the increasing demand for them, and the low prices for which they can be obtained, it has been deemed advisable to say something upon the subject; and experience shows that more can be done with them now than formerly, as they are capable of receiving a considerable amount of finish.

Having put in the general tints with powder colors, assimilating them as much as possible to the complexion, you may finish them up with cake colors, by marking out the eyes, eyebrows, mouth, nostrils, etc., taking care, however, not to run the water colors into the grays or carnations, as they must be kept intact.

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