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Page 109
... lead thin enough to work well with the brush , as it is much lighter in weight . One of its peculiarities , is the ... base are invariably cleaner and purer toned than those made with any other white as a base . The above also holds true ...
... lead thin enough to work well with the brush , as it is much lighter in weight . One of its peculiarities , is the ... base are invariably cleaner and purer toned than those made with any other white as a base . The above also holds true ...
Page 117
... base is usually Indian red plus some of the whites . They owe their beautiful tones to a dye in which they are ... LEAD . 74 . Red Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 117.
... base is usually Indian red plus some of the whites . They owe their beautiful tones to a dye in which they are ... LEAD . 74 . Red Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 117.
Page 120
... lead or a chromate of lead base upon which is thrown a dye from which the base absorbs the rich coloring matter giving them the rich tones which make them near rivals of quicksilver vermillion ; but there the resemblance ends . The dyes ...
... lead or a chromate of lead base upon which is thrown a dye from which the base absorbs the rich coloring matter giving them the rich tones which make them near rivals of quicksilver vermillion ; but there the resemblance ends . The dyes ...
Page 122
... base . The first are chiefly de- rived from America while the second comes ... base colored with hydrate oxide of iron . They vary very much in the quality of ... lead is the only one of all the shades and tones classed under that name ...
... base . The first are chiefly de- rived from America while the second comes ... base colored with hydrate oxide of iron . They vary very much in the quality of ... lead is the only one of all the shades and tones classed under that name ...
Page 123
... lead base to form the neutral and the other shades by the additions mentioned above . b . Chrome yellows are used in oil , coach or water color painting . It is well adapted to all kinds of paint- ing . The only limitation to their use ...
... lead base to form the neutral and the other shades by the additions mentioned above . b . Chrome yellows are used in oil , coach or water color painting . It is well adapted to all kinds of paint- ing . The only limitation to their use ...
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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...