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Chapter XXVI.
Every Boy a Decorative Artist.
Shadow Pictures—Photographic Paper—How to Enlarge or Reduce a Picture, etc.

One day while the author was sketching, a piece of drawing-paper happened to fall upon the ground in the bright sunlight. As the paper Image missingFig. 161.Shadow cast by a Dandelion. rested on the sward the shadows of the grass and weeds were cast upon it. How beautiful and graceful they were! Stooping down the writer passed his brush over the shadows; the result was a sort of half silhouette, an excellent suggestion for a bit of foreground or a decoration. If the thousands of amateur decorators that are daily engaged in daubing pictures of all manner of unnatural-looking plants upon china would only confine themselves to tracing in one color the simple shadows cast by plants in the sunlight, what graceful and pleasing designs Mother Nature would furnish

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