Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-02-04
Painting Oh Brown Paper.
THE Queen.

Among the greatest treasures Of the Turner
drawings exhibited at the National Gallery are
the Two called Angry Swans painted In white
on common brown paper which has been around
parcel. Turner, SEEING the first thing that
came to hand as background TO the white,
painted them with half dozen strokes apiece.
The body color is thinner In places where the
plumage is to be semi transparent, thicker
where the highest ngat5 fall on the snowy
white and there they are, in the power and
majesty OF their anger, thu stateiiness OF thelr
sailing, the changerul c.t ing OF their neoks,
the sweep OF their sprca ng wings, and the
snow of their breasts like u lied velvet Halt
dozen strokes OF brush, 4. little white and
black paint, and bit OF waste paper, have set
them all before US VIA Turner's unrlvalled
skill.
Even to think Of such work as this In CON-
pallSOn with Our own may either inspire us
with emulation or fill us with des pair, 1t depends
In measure upon what is born with US
whether the led anch 10 son pittore'' De
teeming promise or an empty boast,
Brown paper OF the darkest shade and thick
est texture, and gray paper OF a cool granite
I'M are Just now much In demand as materials
Tor painting upon for dados, panels, corniceS and
book covers and other things. They give
background On which the light and shade are
at once relieved; and While gray paper is the
softest, brown paper, partly by the contrast OF
best brown paper for the purpose is the stout,
continuous Kind used by papernangers ana up
holsterers for backing, which can b. had at all
the carpet warehouses In any quantity.
Inc colors are Oil paints in tubes, OF water
cOlorS We'll ground WITH Chimes, Whit: u5at
with fine brtstle5 or red sable brushes. An
other method is TO lay on the Chinese white
well ground to the consistency OF thin cream
and when &c is Org TO paint over it with or :
nary water colors. Red sable brushes are aiS1
the best for both the latter. Minute fiai3h Is
out CT character with the kind OF work: the
effects should be put In broadly, and the designs
be distinct ana OF few large OojectS Brown
paper Will not bear much Indiaruooer ami IN
laying On the Chinese white it is Better Il DO
slbe, to DO SO without any outline at all II
one Is necessary, IL should be either transferred
or sketched in with charcoal, which can be
busted Of IL a mistake Is made. Neither plpar
requires sizing previously or vanishing after
Ward. All Water-color painting, on whatever
material, can be removed, and therefore
smudged with water; therefore. door panels,
book covers, OR anything else to be painted
must De carefully cut out, fixed Ia place With
embroidery paste, and left TO dry thoroughly.
before the coloring is begun. A dadO can oniy
be properly put up by the papernauger. Book
covers should be turned over the edges and
laced with colOfed paper.
A COED design for door. panels Is four water
plants, one In each, standing up Immediately
from the bottom, with few horizontal lines
behind them, TO give the idea OF water. the
actual line OF the horizon being an exact level
IN all four. The let-hand upper panel may be
the arrowhead with blue butterflies the next
a. yellow Iris, with green and gold dragon lies.
Inc right-hand lower one eau have bulrusles
with butterfly; aud the left the Ito eris h rush
with White butterflies again. a brown screen
would look well With sunll0werS and buiruSles,
yellow and the brown shading into the color OF
The ground. For gray paper, flights Of swallows,
with peach and plum or cherry blossoms here
and there, would be suitable. Fiat conventional
flowers, Ike those in loaded glass, are adapted
1or painting OF this kind; and when they are
employed The background may be diapered With
darker shade OF the same color. using sepia or
Vandyke brown Tor the brown paper. Payne's
gray for the other tint.
Studies OF flowers to be afterRard combipe1
ana painted from for designs. are easily and
U
Is excellent practice to copy casts on it in Mite
leaving the paper Itself Tor The deepest shade,
using thin White for the half lights and thick
FOR the highest. Borders can also ba painted fn
white, Shaded with vandyke brown or Pdyne's
gray.
Brown paper may be gilt by using Judson's or
Bessemer's gold like ordinary paint. Tne color
OF the gold VIII be much richer if the design is
previously gone over with Vermi;lion; and it
must be outlined With black, The darkest Shade
OF Drown or vermillion on the right Side As
lettering Is particularly easy OF execution and
effective In this work, 1t is suitable for notices
and Inscriptions.