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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a transfer gold sold which slightly adheres to the paper it is putbetween, and you take up a sheet of the paper upon whichis the gold-leaf, and press this on to the gold size, the goldadhering when you peel away the paper. This transfer goldis easier to manipulate than the ordinary leaf, which has tobe applied, as I have said, with a tip. Decoration looks well on a gilded ground, and somebeautiful effects are obtainable by using transparent oilcolour mixed with varnish on the gold, for the metalshowing through the colour produces a wonderfully richeffect. William Morris, in some of the decorations hedesigned for St. Jamess Palace, used transparent colours ona gold ground with fine effect. The grape was the motif DECORATIVE PAINTING. 241 and the leaves and fruit were outlined in a solid colour, likeIndian red, and then, when dry, the greens and purpleswere put on thinly with varnish. Copal is the best to use,as it dries very hard. A word may here be said as to the mixing of oil colours
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No. 174.—St. Cecilia. By Hans Thoma, in decorated frame. for decorative purposes. Where much colour is required itis cheaper to buy pound tubes of decorators colours. Ifthese are thinned with a little turpentine and a small 242 ART CRAFl^S FOR AMATEURS. quantity of copal they will dry hard and fairly quickly.Linseed and other oil should as a general rule be avoided,as the colours are then so much longer in drying. Ifcolours are thinned with a little turpentine only they dryalmost dead, but the work can be varnished afterwards. There has been a revival in painted furniture, and as it issuch a capital way of using ones labour, amateurs mightprofitably turn their attention in this direction. The furniture, if it be made expressly for decorating,should only be partially polished, and it should be under-stood by the maker that it is intended to be painted, as dueallowance will then be made. The decoration should bedone in oil colours, and you cannot do better than use alittle turpentine

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