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... Stenciling , Statuary Painting , Turpentine , Varnishes , Varnishing , Water Color Painting . BY F. MAIRE OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS CHICAGO FREDERICK J. DRAKE & COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT , 1918 and 1910 BY " FREDERICK J. DRAKE. Modern.
... Stenciling , Statuary Painting , Turpentine , Varnishes , Varnishing , Water Color Painting . BY F. MAIRE OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS CHICAGO FREDERICK J. DRAKE & COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT , 1918 and 1910 BY " FREDERICK J. DRAKE. Modern.
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... turpentine to a proper consistency for applying with a bristle brush , in a smooth even manner . Some painters prefer a flat lead coat or one which contains just enough linseed oil to bind it on , the thin- ner consisting chiefly of ...
... turpentine to a proper consistency for applying with a bristle brush , in a smooth even manner . Some painters prefer a flat lead coat or one which contains just enough linseed oil to bind it on , the thin- ner consisting chiefly of ...
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... turpentine . As the name indicates , it is spread with a knife . It requires careful manipulations so as to level up everything perfectly and it should be well pressed into any cavity or depressions . As work which has been " knifed ...
... turpentine . As the name indicates , it is spread with a knife . It requires careful manipulations so as to level up everything perfectly and it should be well pressed into any cavity or depressions . As work which has been " knifed ...
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... parts of quick rubbing varnish and japan , thinned to the proper working consistency with turpentine . There are a number of other methods of mixing rough stuff , but the one given is that 32 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
... parts of quick rubbing varnish and japan , thinned to the proper working consistency with turpentine . There are a number of other methods of mixing rough stuff , but the one given is that 32 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
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... turpentine . d . While jobs require special treatment of their own from the ground up , they should first be cleaned of all dirty marks on the bare wood , then carefully oiled over with clear linseed oil , sand papered and painted over ...
... turpentine . d . While jobs require special treatment of their own from the ground up , they should first be cleaned of all dirty marks on the bare wood , then carefully oiled over with clear linseed oil , sand papered and painted over ...
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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...