COPY A NEWSPAPER PICTURE

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 5

COPY A NEWSPAPER PICTURE

Let us draw pictures just like those in the newspapers. How is this done. First we look through the newspaper until we find the pictures we want, then we cut them out. It is necessary to have the stub of a used wax candle, a few sheets of paper, a sharp pencil, a pen, some ink, and a teaspoon. JSow we are ready. First we rub the candle on one of the sheets of paper until it is covered with a thin layer of wax. Then we turn it over with the waxed side down on top of the picture we are going to copy. Holding the paper by firmly pressing down on one edge, we rub the bowl of the spoon, with an even pressure, all over the back of the waxed paper. We separate the picture and paper and find that the picture has been transferred —only it is now facing the other way. By placing our waxed paper, with the picture side down, on top of the drawing paper, and rubbing on the back just as we did before, we again transfer our picture, this time much fainter peihaps but still clear enough to enab e ua to clrnw over each line with our sharp pencil. Care should be taken to scrape off as much of the wax as possible from this last sheet of paper, as wax hinders our ink from flowing freely. To have a finished drawing each pencil line must be gone over with pen and ink. Ti,;« method works only on pictures in newspapers—but newspapers have plentv of pictures to choose from, and it is fun to reproduce them.