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... decorations . The above comprises about all the most essential tools needed in 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 ...
... decorations . The above comprises about all the most essential tools needed in 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 ...
Page 87
... decoration , be it a coach , carriage , car , business wagon . or whatever other name and kind the vehicle may be . b . The striping requires skill , so a novice will do well to acquire considerable of that before he under- takes the ...
... decoration , be it a coach , carriage , car , business wagon . or whatever other name and kind the vehicle may be . b . The striping requires skill , so a novice will do well to acquire considerable of that before he under- takes the ...
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... decoration ? e . What is said of sign work on vehicles ? 53. What is said generally of varnishing ? 54. How is rubbing done ? 55. How is flowing varnish put on ? 56. How are running gears varnished ? CHINA PAINTING . 57. China painting ...
... decoration ? e . What is said of sign work on vehicles ? 53. What is said generally of varnishing ? 54. How is rubbing done ? 55. How is flowing varnish put on ? 56. How are running gears varnished ? CHINA PAINTING . 57. China painting ...
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... decorations will have that undefinable " gingerbread " look to it as the painters would call it , if the coloring lacks in harmony , and even if well done and harmonious , if the draperies , furniture and car- pets are not in harmony ...
... decorations will have that undefinable " gingerbread " look to it as the painters would call it , if the coloring lacks in harmony , and even if well done and harmonious , if the draperies , furniture and car- pets are not in harmony ...
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... decorative scheme in this way . This is called harmony by analogy . 91. Harmony by contrast is much more difficult to master , as it is not only the coloring used in the decora- tion that must be taken into consideration but that of the ...
... decorative scheme in this way . This is called harmony by analogy . 91. Harmony by contrast is much more difficult to master , as it is not only the coloring used in the decora- tion that must be taken into consideration but that of the ...
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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...