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Page 65
... ready for the calci- mine . ( For its preparation see paragraph 96. ) If the rooms or halls are large and high ceiled , it will be much better to have tressles of the proper height with a flooring of 2 - inch walking boards across them ...
... ready for the calci- mine . ( For its preparation see paragraph 96. ) If the rooms or halls are large and high ceiled , it will be much better to have tressles of the proper height with a flooring of 2 - inch walking boards across them ...
Page 68
... in up to the line . When dry it is ready to be lined up with such line work as is necessary and stenciled in appro- priate colors . Under the heading of stencils a full description is given 68 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
... in up to the line . When dry it is ready to be lined up with such line work as is necessary and stenciled in appro- priate colors . Under the heading of stencils a full description is given 68 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
Page 82
... ready for the sand papering . This should be very carefully done with fine sand paper to level up any of the putty which rises over the parts sur- rounding it . Great care should be taken that in using the paper too energetically , the ...
... ready for the sand papering . This should be very carefully done with fine sand paper to level up any of the putty which rises over the parts sur- rounding it . Great care should be taken that in using the paper too energetically , the ...
Page 83
... in the United States , ready prepared . The fine Italian natural blocks of pumice stone , well leveled , is still used where an extra fine job is desired . b . While the rubbing is being done the surface Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 83.
... in the United States , ready prepared . The fine Italian natural blocks of pumice stone , well leveled , is still used where an extra fine job is desired . b . While the rubbing is being done the surface Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 83.
Page 90
... ready made at supply stores . These pads are prepared specially for all sorts of pur- poses in varnish rubbing . It is made of felt of different degrees of hardness and texture and varies in thickness from 14 to 2 inches . Chamois skins ...
... ready made at supply stores . These pads are prepared specially for all sorts of pur- poses in varnish rubbing . It is made of felt of different degrees of hardness and texture and varies in thickness from 14 to 2 inches . Chamois skins ...
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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...