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... hold it under the paint which has been softened by the heat of both steam and sun from both sides . d . This skin may or may not break out so as to let the steam escape into the atmosphere . When it does not do so , as soon as the ...
... hold it under the paint which has been softened by the heat of both steam and sun from both sides . d . This skin may or may not break out so as to let the steam escape into the atmosphere . When it does not do so , as soon as the ...
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... hold it . Then either of two things happen : 1st the blister will burst and the condensed steam in the shape of water will run out ; 2nd , or it will not burst and the condensed steam water will be held a prisoner under the blister till ...
... hold it . Then either of two things happen : 1st the blister will burst and the condensed steam in the shape of water will run out ; 2nd , or it will not burst and the condensed steam water will be held a prisoner under the blister till ...
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... hold the chalk line are needed wher- ever any attempts are made at 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 ...
... hold the chalk line are needed wher- ever any attempts are made at 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 ...
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... hold it there . So that what was once a thing of beauty would soon become an eyesore to look upon . It can thus readily be seen why it is not employed in carriage painting . THE TOOLS REQUIRED . 40. a . Round or oval bristle brushes to ...
... hold it there . So that what was once a thing of beauty would soon become an eyesore to look upon . It can thus readily be seen why it is not employed in carriage painting . THE TOOLS REQUIRED . 40. a . Round or oval bristle brushes to ...
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... hold fluxes , mediums , etc. , should be pro- cured . Gold , platinum , etc. Gold and other metals . used in decorating china can also be bought ready for use in all the shades of the metal and the different alloys . One should also be ...
... hold fluxes , mediums , etc. , should be pro- cured . Gold , platinum , etc. Gold and other metals . used in decorating china can also be bought ready for use in all the shades of the metal and the different alloys . One should also be ...
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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...