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Frederick Maire. Painter's Cyclopedia SOME OF THE SUBJECTS : Adulteration of Paint , Blistering of Paint , Brushes , Calcimining , Carriage Painting , China Painting , Colors , Color Harmony , Color Mixing , Color Test- ing , Exterior ...
Frederick Maire. Painter's Cyclopedia SOME OF THE SUBJECTS : Adulteration of Paint , Blistering of Paint , Brushes , Calcimining , Carriage Painting , China Painting , Colors , Color Harmony , Color Mixing , Color Test- ing , Exterior ...
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... 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 preserved and the subject matter de- scribed will be found thus more readily ...
... 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 preserved and the subject matter de- scribed will be found thus more readily ...
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... paint . Moisture in the paint itself very rarely injures the painting done with it , however strange it may sound for one to make the statement . Thus emulsated paints properly prepared will last fully as long as paints which have not ...
... paint . Moisture in the paint itself very rarely injures the painting done with it , however strange it may sound for one to make the statement . Thus emulsated paints properly prepared will last fully as long as paints which have not ...
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... PAINT . 9. How many principal causes why paint blisters ? IO . Name the principal one . II . I2 . Name its accessory . Are the causes of blistering well understood ? Describe how moisture affects paint in sub - sec- tions , a , b , c ...
... PAINT . 9. How many principal causes why paint blisters ? IO . Name the principal one . II . I2 . Name its accessory . Are the causes of blistering well understood ? Describe how moisture affects paint in sub - sec- tions , a , b , c ...
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... painting to obliterate brush marks and producing a uniform grained finish to the work , by beating the painting ... Paint Brush . Fig. კე Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
... painting to obliterate brush marks and producing a uniform grained finish to the work , by beating the painting ... Paint Brush . Fig. კე 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...