How Freseoers Work

How many persons have any idea how great fresco painters manage rhen they wish to produce the figure of a woman flying amid clouds upon a ceilingP It the first place the modern fresco work is apt to be dons upoa canvas, which is attached to the ceiliug afterward. The artist disposes his model upon a couch with pillows under her here and there - one under one leg, one under one shoulder, another under her head, perhaps. Thua he imltates with her body the freest and most graceful outlines of a flying form. His canvas is stretched upon a wall or frame and he mounts a high ladder, and, looking down upon the model, paints her without painting the pillows that mold her attitude. When he has flnished and the figure is overhead it takes on the character of an aerial creature - if the artist has managed as he should.