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... is wanted and will save many a backache . A fair but a much more clumsy substi- tute can be made by using a wooden box of about the proper height . C. The calcimine brush ( see Fig . 1 ) Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 59.
... is wanted and will save many a backache . A fair but a much more clumsy substi- tute can be made by using a wooden box of about the proper height . C. The calcimine brush ( see Fig . 1 ) Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 59.
Page 63
... proper condition as to whether the work shall look good or bad when completed . An ideal wall to work upon is one that will be suffi- ciently hard to have but little suction , nearly but not quite non - absorbent . The patent plastered ...
... proper condition as to whether the work shall look good or bad when completed . An ideal wall to work upon is one that will be suffi- ciently hard to have but little suction , nearly but not quite non - absorbent . The patent plastered ...
Page 65
... proper height with a flooring of 2 - inch walking boards across them , sufficiently close together that the workmen will not have to waste any of his precious time shifting the boards about while he should be at his work busy on fresh ...
... proper height with a flooring of 2 - inch walking boards across them , sufficiently close together that the workmen will not have to waste any of his precious time shifting the boards about while he should be at his work busy on fresh ...
Page 68
... proper to call by that name a paneled ceiling or walls stenciled with some simple designs or even with a stenciled center piece , corners and brakes . While properly speaking there is no fresco painting done in the United States , the ...
... proper to call by that name a paneled ceiling or walls stenciled with some simple designs or even with a stenciled center piece , corners and brakes . While properly speaking there is no fresco painting done in the United States , the ...
Page 69
... proper way of using and taking care of them . graphs 290 to 302. ) 31 . 32 . QUESTIONS ON CALCIMINING . What is calcimine and calcimining ? a . ( See para- What kind of pails are necessary ? b . What support is required for them ? C ...
... proper way of using and taking care of them . graphs 290 to 302. ) 31 . 32 . QUESTIONS ON CALCIMINING . What is calcimine and calcimining ? a . ( See para- What kind of pails are necessary ? b . What support is required for them ? C ...
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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...