A Variety of Designs.

The accompanying illustrations show a number of simple arrangements of such forms as are found in ready-cut papers or may be marked from the form study tablets already mentioned, with the addition of a few other figures which include some very simple forms requiring free-hand cutting. Suggestions for more elaborate designs and specific directions for paper cutting can be found in elementary books treating of decorative drawing and those devoted solely to paper cutting.

Fig. 17.Fig. 18.
Fig. 19.Fig. 20.

Figs. 17 to 25 show arrangements of one-inch kindergarten parquetry papers in one color, used as units to form border designs in contrasted harmony on a white or a gray ground, in all of which there is repetition of form as well as color. A narrow strip of paper in the same color as the units may be used at top and bottom to finish the design.

Fig. 21.Fig. 22.
Fig. 23.Fig. 24.
Fig. 25.Fig. 26.

Figs. 26 to 37 show border designs, each of which is made with one form in two colors or tones in alternation.

Fig. 27.Fig. 28.
Fig. 29.Fig. 30.
Fig. 31.Fig. 32.
Fig. 33.Fig. 34.

Fig. 35.Fig. 36.

Fig. 37.

Figs. 38 and 39 show border designs in one color, with forms marked from the elliptical and oval tablets and cut by hand. In Fig. 39 borders are made by combining half-squares which may be used with or without narrow strips of the same color.

Fig. 38.

Fig. 39.

Figs. 40 and 41 are made by using one form with alternation of tone and of position. Fig. 41 is derived from Fig. 40 by laying the dark squares with the corners in contact and placing the light squares over them.

Fig. 42 shows alternation of form and color or tone, which is also the scheme employed in Fig. 43 in a design less simple with the addition of the half-circles.

Figs. 44 and 45 show two other simple and pleasing designs with alternation of both form and tone or color.

Figs. 46, 47, 48, and 49 comprise designs in two forms and two tones or colors, in which some hand cutting is necessary on the part of the pupils.

Fig. 40.Fig. 41.
Fig. 42.Fig. 43.
Fig. 44.Fig. 45.

Fig. 46.

Fig. 47.

Fig. 48.

Figs. 50 to 54 are rosettes made from parquetry papers with the addition of a small circle or square at the center cut by hand.

Fig. 49.

Figs. 55 to 60 are principally hand-cut forms, and 61, 62 and 63 show surface patterns made from parquetry squares and half-squares.

Fig. 50.Fig. 51.Fig. 52.Fig. 53.
Fig. 54.Fig. 55.Fig. 56.
Fig. 57.Fig. 58.

Fig. 59.Fig. 60.
Fig. 61.Fig. 62.Fig. 63.

Colored papers can be used more advantageously in decorative designs than in imitations of natural objects, for which water colors are much better suited, but some copies of natural flowers and autumn leaves have been made in colored papers which were exceedingly close imitations of water color paintings when seen at a little distance, rivaling in the case of the autumn leaves the best water color effects in brilliancy and depth of color.

There need be no definite rules governing the continuation of color study from this point by a teacher who is interested in the subject and has tried the experiments suggested in the preceding pages. The work will become very interesting at this stage, because now all sorts of material may be introduced for analysis and classification and from this point forward, to the highest achievements of the artist, nature will furnish abundant stimulus to color thought and investigation, if the foundation has been laid according to the true theory of color perception which it is the object of this system to explain.