Crayon Portraiture.
FREE-HAND CRAYON MADE ON STEINBACH CRAYON PAPER—STIPPLEEFFECT IN FACE, BROKEN LINE EFFECT IN BACKGROUND. BY J. A. BARHYDT.
CRAYON PORTRAITURE
Complete Instructions for Making Crayon
Portraits on Crayon Paper and on
Platinum, Silver and Bromide
Enlargements
ALSO DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF
TRANSPARENT LIQUID WATER COLORS
AND FOR MAKING
FRENCH CRYSTALS
BY
J. A. BARHYDT
Author of Article on Crayon Portraiture in
Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 1890.
Illustrated
Revised and Enlarged Edition
NEW YORK
THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO.
33-37 E. 17th Street, Union Square North
Copyright, 1886 and 1892
By J. A. BARHYDT
ROBERT DRUMMOND, PRINTER, NEW YORK
PREFACE.
In issuing this second treatise on Crayon Portraiture,Liquid Water Colors and French Crystals, for the use ofphotographers and amateur artists, I do so with the hopeand assurance that all the requirements in the way of instructionfor making crayon portraits on photographic enlargementsand for finishing photographs in color will befully met. To these I have added complete instructionsfor free-hand crayons.
This book embodies the results of a studio experience oftwenty-four years spent in practical work, in teaching, andin overcoming the everyday difficulties encountered, notalone in my own work, but in that of my pupils as well.Hence the book has been prepared with special reference tothe needs of the student. It presents a brief course of precepts,and requires on the part of the pupil only perseverancein order that he may achieve excellence. The mechanicalprinciples are few, and have been laid down in afew words; and, as nearly all students have felt, in theearlier period of their art work, the necessity of some generalrules to guide them in the composition and arrangement[Pg x]of color, I have given, without entering into anyprofound discussion of the subject, a few of its practicalprecepts, which, it is hoped, will prove helpful.
While this book does not treat of art in a very broadway, yet I am convinced that those who follow its teachingswill, through the work they accomplish, be soon led to ahigher appreciation of art. Although this kind of workdoes not create, yet who will say that it will not have accomplishedmuch if it shall prove to be the first step thatshall lead some student to devote his or her life to thesacred calling of art?
It has been said that artists rarely, if ever, write on art,because they have the i