Lessons In Flower And Fruit Modelling In Wax - neues Buch

LESSONS FLOWER AND FRUIT MODELLING IN WAX - PREFACE - THE co nviction that a more practicable and explanatory guide to modelling flowers and fruit in wax 0 t han any hitherto obtainable would be acceptable to my pupils and others who practise this interesting branch of the Plastic Arts, and the feeling that I could supply the want, have prompted me to pub . - lish the following cc Lessons. I have as much as possible avoided the use of technical terms, so that the reader may better understand and more easily practise what I attempt to teach. Careful attention to my cc Course of Lessons and study of the various diagrams accompanying many of them, will, I think, enable any who have a taste for sukh imitative arts to model with truthfulness and pleasure, and to produce such lifelike portraits of their garden favourites as must be alike interesting and pleasing. I shall be well satisfied if these Lessons be the means of inducing a larger number to study this most pleasing art, destined I hope ere long to be more generally appreciated, because better understood. I think it will be readily conceded by those who have had opportunity of seeing some of the best specimens of the Art, that by no other means can such truthful and pleasing imitations of nature be so easily produced. The uses to which it may be applied are manifold, as objects of art, studies for museums, as aids to the sculptor, the painter, and designer, and for . all interior decorative purposes they are admirably adapted and Pve face. vii will, when their uses are better known, be more extensively used. Modelling in wax is an art of great antiquity, and though much has lately been done to advance it to its ancient place as one ofthe fine arts, much has doubtless to be learned before the true method of modelling and colouring is regained. The art is at once sculpture and painting combined, two difficult operations, but rendered comparatively easy by the very plastic nature of the material employed, which, under proper management, so readily yields to the will of the modeller, who is thus enabled to give that appearance of reality or life which constitutes the true poetry of art. I would, in conclusion, urge on my readers to commence this study with the flowers in the order in which the Lessons are arranged. Then to begin the study of the natural flower, selecting at first one of simple con Preface. struction and little colouring, and to advance by degrees to the more complicated in form, and more highly coloured studies. Remember to faithfully imitate, and thus achieve success. The taste of the modeller will find scope enough in selecting the most effective flowers to study from, and in their arrangement or combination. It is not possible to add to the grace or beauty of any of Natures works. Want of truthfulness indicates the absence of artistic taste remember to faithfully imitate, and thus deserve and achieve success. - CONTENTS - PAGES GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS . 11-2 4 LESSON I . WHITE CAMELLIA . . . . 2 5 32 .. 2 . ROSE-LOIRE DE DIJON . . 33-40 .. 3 . FUCHSIA-DUCHESS OF LANCASTER . 41-45 9. 4 . PASSION FLOWER . . 46-5 8 .. 11 . LEAF-MODELLING . 89-100 8 .. I2 . FRUIT-XZODELLING . . 101-110 LIST OF MATERIALS . . . . . . . 111-1 15 Flower and Fruit Modelling in Wax. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS. THE pr oper form and size of the various petals, calyx, stamens, C., of the flower proposed to be copied may be obtained in thefollowing manner, taking as an example or illustration a doublewhite camellia...