The House Painter, or Decorator's Companion

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from The House Painter, or Decorator's Companion: Being a Complete Treatise on the Origin of Colour, the Laws of Harmonious Colouring, the Manufacture of Pigments, Oils, and Varnishes, And the Art of House Painting, Graining, and Marbling, To Which Is Added, a History of the Art in All AgesThe reader may, perhaps, at the commencement of the work, imagine that we have entered with too much minuteness into the philosophy of colour, and the circumstances under which it is produced, but we feel convinced that it is only by the habit of philosophical investigation that the painter can arrive at excellence in his art. Many persons who are in the daily habit of using pigments for the sake of colour, are quite unable to give a philosophical reason for the effect produced, and to them the simple explanations we have offered will, it is hoped, be interesting and valuable. The origin of colour in its in¿uence upon the human, mind, and the principles of harmonious combination, are subjects of equal interest and importance, and have been discussed as essential branches of knowledge to the house-painter.The manufacture of pigments, varnishes, and other articles employed by the painter, has been described in familiar terms, separated, as much as possible, from the technicalities of chemical science. An attempt has also been made to point out the relative values of different pigments, and the means by which the adulterations can be detected.Ample directions have been given in the third part of the work to instruct the student in the mechanical operations of his profession, and we have entered with some minuteness into a description of the modes of imitating woods and marbles. The work closes with a history of house-painting, as practised by the nations of antiquity and in modern ages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.