Publix Opinion (Jun 22, 1929)

i ROSS SCRATCH BOARD —.séS = i ITT HE MYSTE 7 MAKES FOR BETTER AND gas) Bic 4 DR. FU ~ LESS COSTLY AD CUTS yacenous \) BAe ‘ Serr) et, CG. Garamount — n astic has been the response to the articles carried ee | Cicture in former issues on Benday Ch ind the Bourges Shading} 4° > |: re] m4 Process, and so much comment has been coming in on their) 9) 9 View © helpful. practicability that PUBLIX OPINION is submitting) @ | | | The drawing of Dr. Fu is made on Ross Board Np another excellent and isive process to facilitate miore} — ' inked and the white high lights scraped off wit made engravings. This process tia ena ind Stipple Drawing Papers, . PUBLIX OPINION was fortunate enough to enlist the aid} of Vincent Trotta, Manager Te So Para int’s Art Der ent,} been using this procpartment for some} his long experience | advertising art} reproduction for newspaper Mr. Trotta was quick to which benefitted by afforded the D s for ac ake them mel wa ee | — THE MYSTERIOUS é _ The background of this drawing _is of Ross Board No. 2, the surface DR F MANCHU of which is pure white and con tains a stipple dot. The surface of the board is blackened in by ink Figure D ‘ rs ; }and when thoroughly dry the tops The design at the left and form I ror the varii> Figure A Bi 'of the dots are scraped off with a/ing half of the circle is made by iramount Press Portrait head drawn in brush! sharp knife thereby revealing the | applying part of Ross Board No. 7 and ink on Ross Board No. 2 and! white dots as shown above. the pasted on a pen and ink drawing. re prepared | Books. All of e isinal drawings When finished the background yd black being the remainder of the _ ; Is Ross Bow fil i ; : >, the drawing was scraped with a! surface that contains the ink. The of Dr. Put cmt : reproduced on this page WETEC! sharp blade so that the top of the pictorial on the bottom is drawn Gym ae ky : g in position—ti ide in size requiring 4 A€| dots were cleared of ink as shown./ on Ross Board No. 10 which con94a fais on the different jet ; These white dots could be made | tains # line thruout the surface. “0.4 ' wider according to the effect de-| The pen and ink drawing is made sr sired by simply scraping off until) thereon and all of the whites are s Plan Different the ink lines between dots become | afterwards scraped off with a da%Board Process,”} more fine. sharp knife. I ———————E—E—E—— Benday surface with the stipple, dot| after being scraped, reproduces ges Shad-} or line thereon, but in order! most effectively, either a to get the texture of this, ink} hackground to a drawing. must be applied on the sur-| various nuances on the drawin face and then the tops of the itself to bring out highlight dots stipple or line scraped white as per examples in the) yp et coy background of Figure B and In Hus “copmection, creat the background of Figure A. care should be exercised that “The other Ross Board is|70thing higher than a Number *f that on which a line, a dot, or | 65 Screen be used in reproduca stipple is already inked in|'"& these drawings Aiea by the manufacturers. The} P#@Pers. Anything higher : is an expensive proc-| drawing is to be drawn on| this number will have a and, consequently, would; ¢his and the parts of the dency to cause the ink to ri practically prohibitive in| drawing that are not needed | together and smudge. ¢ oT erations. : | can be scraped off as per ex| The Ross Relief Hand “The Bourges process is less} amples in the figures of B| Stipple Drawing Papers are -— éxpensive, and about equally| and the left hand design of} manufactured by the Charles structions fo; its use, may effective. It cor s of ting} DPD and in E.” _ J. Ross Co., 1525 Fairmount get one free by writing di 1 a transparent celluloid sheet,! “In the case of the Ross| Ave, Philadelphia, Pa. On rectly to the Charles J. Ross Number 65 Screen shaded in various Benday tints | hoard, the actual drawing is the opposite page, is a layCo and stipples, over a drawing Or| made on the board itself. The| out of sample boards which he photograph; scraping it and cut-| board is prepared with a ve-| they manufacture. Managers | ra wings ting away certain parts of it tO/ neer of a special chalk-like sub-| desiring anyone of these ;},;. heighten its effect, and the cut is| stance which makes it possible} shades should order them byl iy tl made from that. 'to scratch the surface of it with| the numbers specified. It is | ini é “Ross Boards are made in| a sharp instrument like a knife| suggested that these orders) tained | three distinct methods for}or a razor blade without) be made through the Home| work. | smudging it. Once the artist | Office Purchasing Depart “One is the plain Ross}has made the drawing, he can| ment in order that a lower'| Board with the chalky sur-|then scrape away any portion] rate may be obtained on|.. a: ae face on it and without any) of it, including the background| them. , Rone” Tecan a texture (as smooth as glass)|of the board itself and that] It will be noted that some of}amples carefully. If vou ho, washed ix an and this is for the purpose of| which he has blacked in, and! these Samples reproduce as|an artist attache oe iL. | Setatehed oan making reverse drawings, the | prodace any effects which his! plain white and, in the repro a Wil re peti apene surface of which is to be|imagination and ingenuity will| duction, it is impossible to get|tention. Hy will than] tothe ‘ cot arta blackened in by ink and the! dictate. an idea of the’ texture of the! having op. ned nother ’ ld r These tee al drawings scraped out white} “One of the main advantages | drawing paper and the design| effective rt re inp ” _ | for Parsee as shown by Figures F and/of the Ross board process is its| of its surface. Pa TE vin: | ae an acti. | used in ee G. adaptability for reproduction in| Managers or artists desir-| show it tc he a a | _ artist, This ae “Another kind of Ross/cuts. The contrast provided by ing this chart in the original, ads. He'll he sure bi pune ead the Board is that of the white) the raised stipples and crevices, | together with a full list of in-! its obvious helpfuine: a “Ate ean be obtati ' 1a ae AS an ae 1% treatment, ¥ 1