Topsy-Turveydom
Yet another variation in lightning cartooning is provided by the ability of the artist to produce pictures which, when turned upside down, show exactly the same view. These are best done in colored chalk or pastel, which is a softer medium and more workable. Landscapes are peculiarly adaptable to this purpose. [Fig. 15] suggests a realistic example.
Fig. 17.—House on cliff drawing completed.
Yet a further pleasing addition to the entertainment may be made by sketching such a scene as [Fig. 16] suggests, afterwards over-coloring with white the part representing the sea, and also the jutting rock marked A up to the dotted line; then turning the whole picture on end, blacking in on the whitened portion windows and doors, as shown in [Fig. 17]. The result will be “The House on the Cliff.”
Shadow Drawings
A very interesting entertainment is to be brought to a close by a short exhibition of shadow drawing. The apparatus required is a magic lantern, before the lens of which is fixed a prepared plate consisting of glass previously covered with a coating of lamp-black and water. A sheet of calico should be attached, some distance away, to the wall. Between the plate and the lantern, and a little to one side, stands the operator, who with the aid of a stick or stump sketches the subject upon the plate, the light filtering through throwing an enlarged presentment of the picture upon the calico screen.