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... least concise , full informa- tion on colors , house , carriage or sign painting and kin- dred subjects in which the big majority of readers are interested . The alphabetical arrangement of the " Painter's Cy- clopedia " has been ...
... least concise , full informa- tion on colors , house , carriage or sign painting and kin- dred subjects in which the big majority of readers are interested . The alphabetical arrangement of the " Painter's Cy- clopedia " has been ...
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... least most of the subject matter relating to the branches taught will be found treated and the questions which are added at the end of each heading will permit its use as a text book in such schools . It makes no claim to be able to ...
... least most of the subject matter relating to the branches taught will be found treated and the questions which are added at the end of each heading will permit its use as a text book in such schools . It makes no claim to be able to ...
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... seldom that blisters caused by moisture can ever be seen except upon the south side of build- ings , the west and the east but mostly on the south , then next in number on the west and least on the 18 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
... seldom that blisters caused by moisture can ever be seen except upon the south side of build- ings , the west and the east but mostly on the south , then next in number on the west and least on the 18 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
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Frederick Maire. next in number on the west and least on the east with none on the north . This order verifies the theory ad- vanced that moisture without the aid of heat will not cause blistering of paint as the south which receives the ...
Frederick Maire. next in number on the west and least on the east with none on the north . This order verifies the theory ad- vanced that moisture without the aid of heat will not cause blistering of paint as the south which receives the ...
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... appropriate for the French at least ; but why should English speaking nations call it that when the words " water color " are well under- stood to mean the same thing and are never misunder- 58 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
... appropriate for the French at least ; but why should English speaking nations call it that when the words " water color " are well under- stood to mean the same thing and are never misunder- 58 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
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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...