Cyclopedia of painting : containing useful and valuable information on the following subjects : adulteration of paint, blistering of paint, brushes, calcimining, carriage painting, china painting, colors, color harmony, color mixing, color testing, exterior painting, gilding, graining, house painting, marbling, mildew, oils and driers, oil painting on glass, painting a bath tub, painting in distemper, paperhanger's tools, paperhanging, pigments, plain oil painting, primary colors, priming, scenic painting, sign painting, stains, staining, stencilling, turpentine, varnishes, varnishing, water color painting, when not to paint, practical points on painting, useful information (1908)
Armstrong, George D · Chicago : F.J. Drake · leaf 190
hburnt umber gives a richer cast. For the overgraining,. Van-dyke brown and blue-black are used. Medium oak looks best on a warm buff, the red and lochretherein being slightly toned down with umber. Burnt um-ber alone makes a good grr.iuing color, whilst Vafidykebrown is generally sufficient for… … GRAINING 185 with the yellowness, be sobered by the umber. For thegraining color, burnt umber or burnt sienna and black maybe used, overgraining with washes of black and Vandykebrown, used either separately or together. Very dark or antique oak has a neutral ground, in whichthe red and yellow are…
