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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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entioned spirits, and a small quantity is addedto the other mediums used when it is desired tokeep the work open, that is—to counteract its dry-ing or fattening- through loss of spirit. The Mediums should be kept in bottles withclosely fitting- stoppers, especially the spirits, asotherwise these would quickly become fat byevaporation. Paint.—The colors used in painting- upon china orearthenware are, for the most part, oxides of cer-tain metals. A few colors, however, such as thedeep transparent blues, and yellows from onesource, are really, to a certain extent, stainedglass, the glass having- more or less completelydissolved the coloring- matter. China or enamelcolors then, from their containing-, as an essentialconstituent, a glass or flux of vitrifiable composi-tion, are called vitrifiable pigments. Complete Palette.—The following- list of colors indry powder will serve our purpose : BLACK. BLUE. Old Tile. Soft.Deep. Turquoise Outremer.Soft. Schwartzenburgh. BLUE. Azure. Deep.
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