How to paint : an instruction book with full description of all the materials necessary. . t; nospecial precautions (other than the usual pasting of the back of the frame) being taken to preventthe access of an ordinary town atmosphere. By an ordinary town atmosphere we signify anatmosphere containing normally, as the active change-producing constituents, oxygen, moisture,and a small percentage of carbonic acid, together with chronic traces of sulphur acids, spasmodictraces of sulphuretted hydrogen, and a certain amount of dust and organic matter in suspension. II. By the permanence of an Oil
How to paint : an instruction book with full description of all the materials necessary. . t; nospecial precautions (other than the usual pasting of the back of the frame) being taken to preventthe access of an ordinary town atmosphere. By an ordinary town atmosphere we signify anatmosphere containing normally, as the active change-producing constituents, oxygen, moisture,and a small percentage of carbonic acid, together with chronic traces of sulphur acids, spasmodictraces of sulphuretted hydrogen, and a certain amount of dust and organic matter in suspension. II. By the permanence of an Oil Color we mean its durability when laid on ordinary pre-pared canvas and exposed freely, for a series of 5ears, in an open room (as far as possible dust-proof) to ordinary daylight and the above-described town atmosphere. The action of the oilmedium—sometimes reducing, sometimes oxidizing—has also in this case to be taken into con-sideration, and the white lead priming of the prepared canvas must likewise be regarded as hav-ing, in many instances, an important bearing on the HOW TO PAINT. 17 OIL PAINTING— Tbis is the material generalh used for painting upon; it is kept prepared iu rolls of six yardsof various widths, and is also strained on frames of any required size—see page 19. Next to thepigments he uses, there is nothing of more importance to the artist than the quality of canvas onwhich he paints. ALOES SUPERIOR PRIMED CANVAS. In rolls of six yards. Of best English Linen. This Canvas is superior to anj- .\mericau Canvas on the market. Every roll measures, forstretching purposes, about two inches more in width than is marked in this list. Smootu Roman OB Single Frimeu. Twilled. Per yard. Per roll. Per yard. | Per roll. 1038 27 inches wide - 30 $ 0 75 SO 90 1 10 1 50 2 00 2 75 3 75 5 00 6 50 $ 4 00 4 50 5 25 6 258 00 11 0015 5021 0026 0032 0040 0054 00 $ 1 00 Ip 5 501 10 fi ; 36 42 45 51 62 ?• - 74 84 1 25 1 65 2 002 504 00 7 259 5011
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