Paint & colour mixing : a practical handbook for painters, decorators, paint manufacturers, artists and all who have to mix colours, containing over 300 samples of actual oil and water-paints and water-colours of various colours, and upwards of 1,500 different colour mixtures, with fifteen coloured plates / by Arthur Seymour Jennings. (1926)
Jennings, Arthur Seymour, 1860-1928 · London : Trade Papers Publishing Co. ; New York : Spon & Chamberlain · leaf 231
MANUFACTURING SCALE OF MIXING. 201 and he theretore commences by adding a sufficiency of this pigment. He then adds sufficient burnt sienna to give the richness and density to the ochre; this the then follows with Venetian red, or in the case of some low grades he would probably use Venetian red… … judge the proportion of oil that should be added in the mixing process. Frequently the material becomes somewhat heated with the result that it works softer than it ultimately becomes when cold ; this has to be allowed for. Another type of machine largely used for the mixing of paint bodies and the…
Paint mixing · Pigments
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