Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-29
HOW TO MAKE CARICATURES
keppler Reveals Some Inter-
esting Art Secrets.
MEN WHO ARE GOOD SUBJECTS
General Butler is the Best One
Now Living.
John Kelly Was Good subject, so
Were Conkling and General Grant--
Talmage Favorite ani lie Seems to
Like it--How the Pictures Are Made.
New YORK Herald.

Fame and fortune do not prevent the
caricaturist having his troubles no less
than the rest Of us. Now and then n
good subject for his pencil is nominated
for an important office or otherwise
brought before the public eye, but this
is only now and then, III the main the
men who command popular attention
are not good subjects for caricature in
pictures.
II you could call all the caricaturists
oil this country together and get a frank
expression of their views they would
doubtless tell you that President Harri-
son is mighty mean man for having
made up his cabinet entirely Of men
who cannot be successfully caricutured.
And as for Postmaster general Wanna
maker, he is the very worst of them all.
Mr.. Blaine was the best, but he was
never regarded as a very good subject.
Nothing but his extraordinary prOmi.
nence in affairs caused him to be pic,
tured at ALL One Ben Butler is worth
more to the carcaturist than all the
members Of The present cabinet.
asked Joseph keppler, the prince Of
carlcaturists, why this is SO,
KELLY THE BEST.
"Well," said he, ga man is Il good
subject according to the number Of
things his face or his character suggests.
Some men can be made into any thing.
They have faces which suggest every
thing from man to a hullfrog. Gen
eraf butler is the best one now living in
this country, John Kelly was the best
one ever saw. / could draw him in
ullign n "a lnlIll a gttrl
thing almost, and yet preserve his like
ness. There was a great deal Of the
animal in his face. That accounts for
it."
Perhaps it is worth while here to tell
how Mr.. Keppler does this work, the
manual part of it, before touching upon
the interesting mental phases Of it.
First, then, he makes charcoal outline
on Il piece of paper, the mercst skeleton
of the picture he intends to produce in
colors on the Autographed page. This
drawing has no detail in it, and is so dc.
void of even form that q layman would
be unable to say whether it is a picture
Of a man or Of tree.
tits drawn merely to aid Mr.. Kepplcr
in getting at the size Of the picture to
be made. When he has measured it
upon II photographic stone and found it
fitting to u page or double page of Puck
he lays the paper upside down upon the
stone and pats it lightly. Thus some Of
the charcoal is made to adhere to the
stone-a mere faint suggestion of the
size the picture is to be. If there are to
be five colors in the picture he repeats
this process on five stones. When this
is done and each stone bears the same
faint outline he begins making pictures
in colors directly upon the stones. Let
US suppose he is to make picture of a
man with red neclStie, black hat and
coat, yellow trousers and green gloves.
First he makes the neclitie on one stone,
then the black hat, coat and boots upon
another, the yellow trousers upon
another, the green gloves upon another
and then the flesh tint of the face upon
another. In other words, he puts all
the black things upon one stone, all the
red things upon another and so on, only
one color on stone.
THE MECHANICAL WORK.
The photographic stone is a product of
Germany. 1t is peculiarly porous. The
drawing upon it is done with a greasy
crayon and this grease prevents water
thnga
points where the color is laid on. The
stone after being thoroughly saturated
with water is ready for the press, for
the ink is of such character that IL
will adhere only to the dry or greasy
portions Of the stone, so, of course,
nothing shows upon the printed page
save what Mr.. keppler has drawn with
his crayon upon the stone. Mr.. keppler
always attends personally to mixing the
colors of ink for lis pictures.
Ii usually takes him about t,vn dave
to make full page or double pare nic.
ture.
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