Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — HOW TO ENLARCE A PICTURE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW TO ENLARCE A PICTURE.

An Operation That Is Not to Difficult as It May Seem. There are a great many things which seem very mysterious and difficult to accomplish till after a few simple words of explanation. Then we wonder why we never discovered the easy solution. It seems strange that any one who has practiced drawing should not soon know the easiest and most exact way to enlarge a picture, but the fact is, many young artists do not find out this little secret till after they have bothered themselves greatly and mourned over many unsuccessful efforts. You see in the pretty outline picture a charming little fellow of the “Little Lord Fauntleroy” style. He is sitting in a willow chair, with a cushion behind him, while he gazes intently out of the window. The picture is three

inches wide and five inches long. I have divided it into square inches. Now if you wish to make a picture twice as large as the original, take a piece of paper of sufficient size and draw a panel six inches wide and ten inches long, and then divide it into squares measuring to inches each way. You understand immediately that as the original picture is divided into fifteen squares, so your copy will have also fifteen squares, but those in the copy will be twice a 3 wide and twice as long as those in the original. I already detect myself in an error. I spoke of making the picture “twice as large.” The fact is the picture will be four times as large. But you comprehend I meant twice as wide and twice as long. Having drawn the lines, notice in the original what parts of the picture are where the lines intersect. The upper right hand intersection is at the top of the nose where it joins the forehead; ihe next below is near the arm of the chair: the next at the child’s knee, and the lowest on his slipper. The intersections on the left are, the top one near the corner of the cushion; the next near the upper edge of the child’s sash; the next near the lower edge of his dress. Now remember that the proportions must harmonize. The outline of the top of the head is almost across the middle of the square in which it is, a little below the middle: make it so on your sketch. The distance from the back of the head to the forehead takes in about two-thirds of the width of the square. The hair hanging down behind reaches a little below the middle of the squire, and directly opposite that, toward the window, is the child’s hand. From the child’s eye to the lower outline of his chin take? about one-third of the square. The lower edge of the sash is in the middle of the square horizontally, and the outline of his waist is in the middle of it vertically. His shoulder and the point under his arm divide the square into three equal divisions. The right foot reaches the middle of the lowest square, etc. It is not necessary to go into further details. A landscape, or any kind of a picture, can be enlarged in the same way .—Kate Kauffman, in Farm and Fireside.