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... transparent that it may be painted over new wood in several coats without hiding the grain of the wood much more than so many oilings would have done . This great transparency enables the color ( ? 8 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
... transparent that it may be painted over new wood in several coats without hiding the grain of the wood much more than so many oilings would have done . This great transparency enables the color ( ? 8 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
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Frederick Maire. done . This great transparency enables the color ( ? ) manufacturer to add it in nearly any proportion de- sired to colored pigments . But it is after all mainly as an adulterant of white lead and zinc white , that it ...
Frederick Maire. done . This great transparency enables the color ( ? ) manufacturer to add it in nearly any proportion de- sired to colored pigments . But it is after all mainly as an adulterant of white lead and zinc white , that it ...
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... transparent ones whose chief value consist in this very transparency and their brilliancy of tone . In the latter case the mere strength test is of little value . Under the subject head of colors by referring to paragraphs 61 to 74 ...
... transparent ones whose chief value consist in this very transparency and their brilliancy of tone . In the latter case the mere strength test is of little value . Under the subject head of colors by referring to paragraphs 61 to 74 ...
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... transparent it is better to give the job more coats than to risk spoiling the smoothness of the surface of the job produced upon it by the rough stuffing process . c . It goes without the saying it again that no lin- seed oil is ...
... transparent it is better to give the job more coats than to risk spoiling the smoothness of the surface of the job produced upon it by the rough stuffing process . c . It goes without the saying it again that no lin- seed oil is ...
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... transparent in oil to be of any use as a self paint but is valuable in the preparation of Venetian red where it becomes its base . It is also use- ful as a corrective in many of the other colors and in the compounding of white paints ...
... transparent in oil to be of any use as a self paint but is valuable in the preparation of Venetian red where it becomes its base . It is also use- ful as a corrective in many of the other colors and in the compounding of white paints ...
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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...