ng Liquid Water Colors 112

Drapery 114

Landscape 116

The Principle 117

FRENCH CRYSTALS 123

Materials 124

The Method 125

Mounting French Crystals 126

Finishing Photographs in India Ink 128

Conclusion 130

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE.

Free-hand Crayon made on Steinbach Crayon Paper with a
Magic Lantern Outline, showing Stipple Effect in Face
and Drapery and Broken Line Effect in Background _Frontispiece_

Negative Outline--Dark Chamber 40

McAllister's Magic Lantern, No 653, with Wonder Camera
Attachment 42

Magic Lantern Outline 43

Lines to produce Stipple Effect 60

Background--Line Effect 67

Line Effect for Face 72

Line Effect for Dress 76

Crayon executed over Bromide Enlargement made from Original
Negative, showing Stipple Effect throughout 80

[Illustration]

CRAYON PORTRAITURE.

To many who know nothing about the art of crayon portraiture, the
mastery of it not only seems very difficult, but almost unattainable.
In fact, any work of art of whatever description, which in its
execution is beyond the knowledge or comprehension of the spectator, is
to him a thing of almost supernatural character. Of course, this is
more decided when the subject portrayed carries our thoughts beyond the
realms of visible things.

But the making of crayon portraits is not within the reach alone of the
trained artist who follows it as a profession. I claim that any one who
can learn to write can learn to draw, and that any one who can learn to
draw can learn to make crayon portraits. Making them over a