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Page 115
... brown to the most brilliant scarlet reds bordering on the yellow . They will be reviewed according to their origin as derived from a metallic , mineral or vegetable kingdom . THE METALLIC REDS . 73. a . Red oxide is the most common form ...
... brown to the most brilliant scarlet reds bordering on the yellow . They will be reviewed according to their origin as derived from a metallic , mineral or vegetable kingdom . THE METALLIC REDS . 73. a . Red oxide is the most common form ...
Page 121
... brown . Carmine itself is derived from coloring obtained from cochineal , an insect . It is too fugitive for work requiring per- manency and has become supplanted by alizarin made lakes which are much more permanent and which equal the ...
... brown . Carmine itself is derived from coloring obtained from cochineal , an insect . It is too fugitive for work requiring per- manency and has become supplanted by alizarin made lakes which are much more permanent and which equal the ...
Page 128
... brown earth pigments , it will be well to note that the burning of them has a tendency to change their tone . Those containing ferric oxide will become redder than they were in the raw state . Those containing manganese will become ...
... brown earth pigments , it will be well to note that the burning of them has a tendency to change their tone . Those containing ferric oxide will become redder than they were in the raw state . Those containing manganese will become ...
Page 129
... brown and by burning is changed into a rich clear toned brown which in good umbers will be free of redness— they are semi - transparent . They are useful in all kinds of painting and in all mediums . c . Siennas , raw and burnt , like ...
... brown and by burning is changed into a rich clear toned brown which in good umbers will be free of redness— they are semi - transparent . They are useful in all kinds of painting and in all mediums . c . Siennas , raw and burnt , like ...
Page 130
... brown , etc. , which designation is still used on the eastern seaboard while it has become ob- solete in the middle west . THE BLACKS . 84. a . The blacks play an important role in every department of painting . It is used largely as a ...
... brown , etc. , which designation is still used on the eastern seaboard while it has become ob- solete in the middle west . THE BLACKS . 84. a . The blacks play an important role in every department of painting . It is used largely as a ...
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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...