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... applied or that can be sucked up from the earth by capillary attraction as in stone , brick and cement structure , then there is great danger that the paint will blister sooner or later . b . As stated before there must be heat present ...
... applied or that can be sucked up from the earth by capillary attraction as in stone , brick and cement structure , then there is great danger that the paint will blister sooner or later . b . As stated before there must be heat present ...
Page 19
... very dark paint has been applied to a surface which before had been coated over with a very light tint . It is explained in this way : Light is reflected by white and all light tints , and absorbed Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 19.
... very dark paint has been applied to a surface which before had been coated over with a very light tint . It is explained in this way : Light is reflected by white and all light tints , and absorbed Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 19.
Page 62
... applying calcimine . A number of others will be needed by the decorator in water colors , and will be treated more fully under several headings where water colors are employed in the more artistic branches of dis- temper work . 33. a ...
... applying calcimine . A number of others will be needed by the decorator in water colors , and will be treated more fully under several headings where water colors are employed in the more artistic branches of dis- temper work . 33. a ...
Page 69
... applied ? 38. How are walls and ceilings laid out into panels , stiles , etc. ? CARRIAGE PAINTING , CAR AND COACH PAINTING . For all practical purposes , all the above stand upon one and the same footing . The underlying principles and ...
... applied ? 38. How are walls and ceilings laid out into panels , stiles , etc. ? CARRIAGE PAINTING , CAR AND COACH PAINTING . For all practical purposes , all the above stand upon one and the same footing . The underlying principles and ...
Page 70
... applied to vehicles would be just the right thing for them . All are well aware that house painting is chiefly done by using linseed oil as a binder and vehicle of the pig- ments used in doing the work and really it is by this use only ...
... applied to vehicles would be just the right thing for them . All are well aware that house painting is chiefly done by using linseed oil as a binder and vehicle of the pig- ments used in doing the work and really it is by this use only ...
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adulterant applied artists barytes better blistering bronze brown burnt sienna burnt umber calcimine camel's hair carriage ceiling chrome green clean dark decoration distemper edge finishing fixed oils flat fresco gilding Girth give glass glazing glue gold leaf grainer Gray ground coat imitated inch Indian red iron ivory black japan kinds ladders lampblack lead for base light linseed oil look madder lake marble material medium chrome yellow metal mixed moisture nearly needed oil paint orange chrome yellow painter paragraph pigments plaster prepared priming produce proper Prussian blue putty quantity raw and burnt raw sienna raw umber rubbing second coat shades sign painting sizes sponge stains stencil stippling suit surface thinned tint-how tints tion tone transparent trifle turpentine ultramarine blue usually varnish brushes veining Venetian red wall paper water colors white lead wood zinc white
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Page 393 - It certainly is not in good taste to stain woods in colors which do not belong to them, as blues, greens, etc., and while this is a free country, etc., as long as a person is not sent to the penitentiary for committing outrages against nature, nor to insane asylums, it is very probable that the practice will go on undisturbed. But it is vulgarity, to say the least of the practice, and painters should not encourage it.
Page 63 - With all the cheap John sort of plastering that is being done by contractors at a price which would mean a sure loss to them if they used good material, but which must be done so as to make a profit anyhow, many of the surfaces the calciminer has to 'deal with will be found very porous and absorbing...
Page 448 - ... surface. The crepe paper, cheese cloth and burlap also produce fine, simple patterns but slightly different from each other. The heavy muslin when crumpled up into a wad gives an especially pleasing pattern resembling the figure of Spanish leather when done in the burnt umber or Van Dyke brown ovef a ground coat of ivory.
Page 63 - An ideal wall to work upon is one that will be sufficiently hard to have but little suction, nearly but not quite non-absorbent. The patent plastered walls left either in a...