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Title: The painters' encyclopædia. Containing definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ... and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.)
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York, M.T. Richardson
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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e leg on the centre M, place the other leg at thepoint seven and a half inches off, on line N ; liftthe compasses, being careful not to displace them,and set one leg- on spot H, four inches from cen-tre, and turn the other leg down until it strikesline N, which it will do about two inches from thespot N, and that spot is marked A on our cut.Then turn it the other side of centre M, and markthe other spot O on line N. Now stick a pin ortack into the points O and O, and a pin or tack in EMERALD GREEN. 121 point H at the top. Next take a piece of stringand tie it around the two pins quite tig-lit, thenremove the pin at point H, and put in its place thepoint of a pencil, as shown in the eng-raving, and,keeping the string- taut, move the pencil along.You will find that the string directs the course ofthe pencil point, and the result will be a perfectoval, or properly, ellipse. The ellipse may bemade any size or shape, i. e., long and narrow, orbroad and short, etc., by simply laying out the
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Fig. 22.—Method of Laying Out an Ellipse. measurements on the lines H and N : for instance,if we measure twenty-two inches on line N, andfour inches on line H, the oval will be very longand slim, but nevertheless a perfect ellipse. Thismay be done with the compass alone, but it cannot be done so well or so correctly as by the abovemethod. Emerald Green.—The name of a copper green pig-ment. It is the most vivid of this class of colors,being rather opaque and powerfully reflective of 122 ENAMEL BLUE. light. Its hue is not common in nature, but wellsuited for brilliant works. It works well in water,but with difficulty in oil and dries badly therein.The only true emerald green is, however, that ofchrome, with which metal nature gives the greencolor to the emerald. Enamel Blue.—A name often given to blue smalt(which see). Enameled Leather Varnish.—A preparation forgiving leather that appearance it had when new.We append the Messrs. Valentines directions foruse. First clean the leat

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