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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, etc., from contactwith the distemper now to be used. The panelshould have been previously varnished. If theinlay is to imitate walnut, take equal parts ofVandyke brown, burnt sienna, and a little damplake to impart warmth of color. These must be ground in water and should beused with sufficient stale beer to render the colorworkable. Coat the panel right over, and with ahog-hair mottler vary the tints by taking outsome portions of it before it dries, softening thewhole with a badger-hair brush. When this isthoroughly dry the panel is ready for the stencil. The stencil being laid on in its proper place, goover it with the stencil brush dipped in japangold-size thinned with turpentine, taking care touse it as sparingly as possible to prevent spread-ing. The lines may be drawn with the samemedium, using an angle fitch and straightedge. In about an hour the gold-size will be dryenough to bear washing with water, and a softsponge and water will soon remove the distemper, 362 STENCILING.
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Fig. 142.—Stencil Designs. STENCILING. 363 leaving the parts covered by the size, consequentlya walnut inlay on a satin-wood panel. The greatest care must be taken that the var-nish has become dry before any attempt is madeto coat the work with distemper. The firmnessof hand and precision of touch indispensable to thedecorator can only be obtained by patient practicewith the black-lead pencil; as well does it affordthat education of the eye to the beauty and sym- A

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