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Page 126
... imitated by using the greenish blue ultramarine reduced with zinc white . f . Indigo blue is derived from a plant and its use in either water colors or oil is confined to a few artists . With so many better blues to choose from , its ...
... imitated by using the greenish blue ultramarine reduced with zinc white . f . Indigo blue is derived from a plant and its use in either water colors or oil is confined to a few artists . With so many better blues to choose from , its ...
Page 134
... imitated ? f . What is said of indigo blue ? 82. a . What is said of greens in general ? b . What are chrome greens ? 83 . C. What about cobalt or zinc greens ? d . What is said of viridian ? e . What of Paris or Emerald green ? a ...
... imitated ? f . What is said of indigo blue ? 82. a . What is said of greens in general ? b . What are chrome greens ? 83 . C. What about cobalt or zinc greens ? d . What is said of viridian ? e . What of Paris or Emerald green ? a ...
Page 234
... imitated by a blend of solid colors for cheaper work , but , like all imitations , it falls far short of the genuine . In carriage work the glazing coat follows immedi- ately after the last coat of color has been put on and just ...
... imitated by a blend of solid colors for cheaper work , but , like all imitations , it falls far short of the genuine . In carriage work the glazing coat follows immedi- ately after the last coat of color has been put on and just ...
Page 235
... imitated woods upon the canvas had no idea as to how the grainers execute their work , nor of its methods , and such a knowledge would have been useless to them as a pic- ture would have been nofield where such could have been practical ...
... imitated woods upon the canvas had no idea as to how the grainers execute their work , nor of its methods , and such a knowledge would have been useless to them as a pic- ture would have been nofield where such could have been practical ...
Page 243
... imitated ; yet it may be necessary sometmes to match something different than the ones named as in a room finished in hard pine , and where a closet or addition is made from white pine or cypress and one has to grain it to match the ...
... imitated ; yet it may be necessary sometmes to match something different than the ones named as in a room finished in hard pine , and where a closet or addition is made from white pine or cypress and one has to grain it to match 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...