The Painters' & grainers' handbook : a complete illustrated guide to painting, graining, distempering, sign-writing, gilding, and glass embossing ... (1873)
Callingham, James · London : Brodie & Middleton : Simpkin, Marshall · leaf 18
nsewith at least one or two coats. But this is quite amistaken notion. It is impossible to execute goodwork if the colours are used too thick, or applied tooplentifully. In the one case the brush-marks willobtrude themselves, and in the other the paint willshrivel up^ and dry rough, or, technically… … i8 PAINTING. It should be stated that, in laying on the colour,either on panels, stiles, or other flat work, the brush should be crossed backwclrds, and forwards, and in alldirections, to equalise the quantity of paint on everypart of the work. It must then be laid off lightly,beginning at the top,…
