WOODEN PICTURES.
Miss 3>,tfcice Apperly, an 18-year-old! artj,st, h*s invented a niovel kind of picture. It is a wooden picturey in which the figures are drawn, cut out and painted by then fixedon to the wooden backgroKnd, so that tiiey stand out in relief. -■■' ■■■ When; only>.lS Miss Apperly started to paint pieturesy and they were so s'riking that she was able to spll many of them to publishers for reprodud:ion. One day Bhe cut some of her figures out in %vood: ; with a fret-saw and hand-painted them. '■■. ,',. :':.r.- '',■' ■■■ ."^..-'■■"'. ; ': "■ '^■■'; They.'Were' so popuhrir that the 'Tnjnr'ines," as they were cialled, demanded a i JKmali factory to reproduce them. Now ' Miss Apperly his invented and patented her idea of makjErig ;a : picture completely in woodL- The backgrounds of the picj tures v'arc thrce-iply vs«6od_, and ceirtam I special'processes used in the znanofaci ture to hold, th<jjin \ together. , "; The artist •.'half:<','taken characters from popular tlieatricji :pro*luctions and reiii'.o----■''dnced\-: of these were shown for ihe lirst time in one cf the sections r of \the'; British Empire Exhibition. : :■ '/:'■.'■„■ ■ ,'••■■' ':", ;■'.■ ' ■."■• .'•.'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18774, 30 July 1924, Page 14
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