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 (1887)
Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.) · New York, M.T. Richardson · leaf 253
d whichgive every satisfaction are of two kinds—a spiritand an oil; the latter being the vehicle proper, theformer, the thinning agent to render practicablethe spreading of the mixed oil and paint in a coatof any desired depth or thickness. The spirit andthe oil are both either of turpentine or of… … Fig. 78.—The Rose. Design for Porcelain Painting. OVER-GLAZE PAINTING. 247 found best to procure rectified spirits of turpentineas sold by the drug-gist, which is as clear as the pro-verbial crystal, and as limpid as the purest water.The common turpentine may be used for washing-brushes. The oil of…
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