The painter's educator. For stainers, varnishers, grainers, carriage painters, fresco artists, gilders and amateurs; containing rules and methods ..
A trade instruction manual on house and decorative painting, graining, varnishing, gilding and fresco work, written by T. C. Turney and printed at Nevada, Ohio in 1901 for working painters and amateurs. The line engravings show disembodied cuffed hands gripping combs, straightedges, rollers and brushes against wood-grain panels, plus cutaway diagrams of pots and stoves, offering designers isolated hand gestures, tool silhouettes and dense hatched grain textures.






