DOI Heft:
No. 30 (September, 1895)
DOI Artikel:Occasional Notes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0239
Occasional Notes
SILVER DISH DESIGNED AND WORKED BY G. L. MARKS
Some of the patterns were thoroughly well con-
ceived ; but we were, on the whole, most pleased
with the manner in which the metal had been
treated by the artist. The surfaces of the objects
were not over-ornamented, pleasant plain spaces
being left which served to accentuate the beauty of
the designs.
The objects were free from meretricious machine
turning and polishing, and were left in the natural
dull white colour in which silver looks at its best.
The marks of the tools employed in chasing or
hammering out the design were not obliterated,
and the whole of the exhibits had that pleasant
sense of " handwork " which is entirely missing in
the majority of wrongly called artistic work pro-
duced under the direction of " the trade."
We shall await with interest the further develop-
ment of Mr. G. L. Marks' work.
We have pleasure in giving a reproduction from
the latest bust of Mr. J. L. Toole, the well-known
comedian. The bust has been modelled and cast
in bronze by Mr. William Shirreffs, a Glasgow
sculptor and art-worker who is doing good work
with much success.
We have received from Messrs. George Rowney
& Co. some sample sheets of CopnalPs Mezzotone
Drawing-paper. This paper is prepared on the
face with a grey tone which may readily be re-
moved by the application of an ink eraser, the use
of white chalk or paint being thus obviated. We
have carefully tested the sheets sent us, and have
found them to bear out in every particular the
claims of the makers. The results obtained in
working are particularly agreeable, the quality of the
high lights being softer and more gratifying to the
eye than the harsher tones of chalk and Chinese
white. We can cordially recommend this paper
to the notice of art-masters and others.
A black ink which is waterproof and admits of
washes of colour being laid over it without smear-
ing, is a desirable medium to many art-workers.
An American ink, known as Higgins' Waterproof
Liquid Drawing Ink, possesses this quality, and
should meet with a ready demand from the rapidly
growing army of book illustrators.
The oil colours supplied by the Art Colour Co.,
St. Stephen's Avenue, London, we have found to
be of excellent quality, and the prices extremely
moderate.
BUST OF J. L. TOOLE BY WILLIAM SHIRREFFS
SILVER DISH DESIGNED AND WORKED BY G. L. MARKS
Some of the patterns were thoroughly well con-
ceived ; but we were, on the whole, most pleased
with the manner in which the metal had been
treated by the artist. The surfaces of the objects
were not over-ornamented, pleasant plain spaces
being left which served to accentuate the beauty of
the designs.
The objects were free from meretricious machine
turning and polishing, and were left in the natural
dull white colour in which silver looks at its best.
The marks of the tools employed in chasing or
hammering out the design were not obliterated,
and the whole of the exhibits had that pleasant
sense of " handwork " which is entirely missing in
the majority of wrongly called artistic work pro-
duced under the direction of " the trade."
We shall await with interest the further develop-
ment of Mr. G. L. Marks' work.
We have pleasure in giving a reproduction from
the latest bust of Mr. J. L. Toole, the well-known
comedian. The bust has been modelled and cast
in bronze by Mr. William Shirreffs, a Glasgow
sculptor and art-worker who is doing good work
with much success.
We have received from Messrs. George Rowney
& Co. some sample sheets of CopnalPs Mezzotone
Drawing-paper. This paper is prepared on the
face with a grey tone which may readily be re-
moved by the application of an ink eraser, the use
of white chalk or paint being thus obviated. We
have carefully tested the sheets sent us, and have
found them to bear out in every particular the
claims of the makers. The results obtained in
working are particularly agreeable, the quality of the
high lights being softer and more gratifying to the
eye than the harsher tones of chalk and Chinese
white. We can cordially recommend this paper
to the notice of art-masters and others.
A black ink which is waterproof and admits of
washes of colour being laid over it without smear-
ing, is a desirable medium to many art-workers.
An American ink, known as Higgins' Waterproof
Liquid Drawing Ink, possesses this quality, and
should meet with a ready demand from the rapidly
growing army of book illustrators.
The oil colours supplied by the Art Colour Co.,
St. Stephen's Avenue, London, we have found to
be of excellent quality, and the prices extremely
moderate.
BUST OF J. L. TOOLE BY WILLIAM SHIRREFFS