This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...of this method ordinary water-colors are used, these being rubbed down with a mixture consisting of two solutions compounded in certain proportions. One of these is composed of one hundred parts of a syrup of potassium water-glass, to which have been added ten parts of a lead-acetate solution--that is, fifteen parts ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...of this method ordinary water-colors are used, these being rubbed down with a mixture consisting of two solutions compounded in certain proportions. One of these is composed of one hundred parts of a syrup of potassium water-glass, to which have been added ten parts of a lead-acetate solution--that is, fifteen parts lead acetate in one hundred parts water, stirred by an air-stream until mixed--the other solution being a mixture of fifty parts borax dissolved in one hundred parts of warm water and twenty parts glycerine. Sixty parts of the first solution are mixed with forty of the second, and with this mixture the colors are rubbed down, while for thinning purposes, water and the firstnamed solution are mixed well together in equal parts. After the products have been painted, they are placed in the bath composed of one part of borax dissolved in twelve parts of water, and mixed in a gutta-percha vessel with fifty parts of hydrofluoric and ten parts sulphuric acid. After the articles have been immersed in this bath, for ten minutes, they are washed in clean water, and the color then has the appearance of having been burned in. This method is a useful introduction to china-painting. CHAPTER XV. PAINTING ON PLAQUES. Of all the numerous varieties of decorative art, none is more popular or pleasing than that of plaquepainting. The plaques are obtainable in wood, porcelain, china, papier macht', metal, etc., and are found in the ordinary plaque or plate form, oval, square and oblong. The square and oblong plaques are often bent or cut away at the corners to form picturesque lines. They are decorated in floral and other designs, as the taste or fancy of the artist may suggest. Many of the wood plaques are decorated upon their surface, the grain of the wood being l...
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