Lessons in Fashion Plates
Greyscale Colouring in Sheets
Fashion History
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com
Antique Fashion & Costume Plates
Fashion History
Greyscale Fashion Plates for Colouring in
The coloured versions of
most of these fashion plates are
here. Others are on individual fashion plate pages in this
section. These greyscale images are for school class use for
colouring in. See the original coloured fashion plates and read
about the history of
the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine here.
School Lesson
Use
The thumbnails here will enlarge
to make A4 prints for colouring in.
Print off the enlargements.
Use them in class situations.
They can be coloured either with a brush and watercolour or use water-soluble pencils.
Use water-soluble crayons or pencils such as those by Caran d'Ache. Instruct students to stroke the images with gentle pencil strokes then
use a lightly damp paintbrush to blend and merge colours. This will
give them an idea of the hand-work that colourists did to tint plates.
Greyscale Fashions For Colouring in.
These images above all print to A4 paper when enlarged. They are available
here as full colour
images. Those below are available on individual pages in this
section.
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School Lesson
Use
The greyscale thumbnails enlarge
to make A4 prints for colouring in.
Use them in class situations. They can be coloured either by watercolour or use water-soluble pencils.
Instruct students to stroke the images with gentle pencil strokes then
use a lightly damp paint brush to blend and merge colours. This will
give them an idea of the hand-work that colourists did to tint plates.
You can find a few more early
Edwardian colouring in fashion plate images on this page
here.
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