The painters' encyclopædiaContaining 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 . ller being first run over a flat sur-face of fresh paint, and then transferred to the 266 PEACH COLOR. work. A similar roller, as shown in Fig-. 87, isalso used for marking- the over-grain of oak.


The painters' encyclopædiaContaining 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 . ller being first run over a flat sur-face of fresh paint, and then transferred to the 266 PEACH COLOR. work. A similar roller, as shown in Fig-. 87, isalso used for marking- the over-grain of oak. Peach Color.—The pale, red color of the peach blos-som, made by mixing seven parts white to onepart each red, blue and yellow. This color formsan excellent ground for vermilion. Pea-Creen.—A light shade of green approximatingthat of the pea, made by mixing five parts ofwhite with one of chrome green, or milori green. Pean. (Her.)—One of the furs in heraldry, differingfrom ermine only in the tinctures; the ground be-ing sable and the spots gold. Pearl White.—A denomination applied to two pig-ments ; one falsely so called, prepared from bis-muth, which turns black in sulphuretted hydrogengas or any impure air, and is used as a cosmetic ;the other prepared from the waste of pearls andmother-of-pearl, which is exquisitely white and ofgood body in water, but of little force in oil or var-. Fig. 86.—Patent GrainingRoller. Fig. 87.—CombingRoller. PENCIL. 267 nish ; it combines, however, with all other colorswithout injuring them, and is itself perfectly per-manent and innoxious. Pediment. (Arch.)—A triangular, segmental ordecorative crowning to a doorway. Pendant-—A cluster of hanging fruit, flowers orfoliage. Pencil-—A name applied to instruments for writing,drawing, or painting, and differing as much intheir construction as in the use to which they areput. The class generally known as hair pencilsare much used by all painters, especially fordecorative work. They


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