Hints for painters, decorators, and paper-hangers. / Being a selection of useful rules, data, memoranda, methods, and suggestions for house, ship and furniture painting, paper-hanging, gilding, color mixing, and other matters useful and instructive to painters and decorators. Prepared with special reference to the wants of amateurs

by An Old Hand

In the deepest part of the black a white vein is sometimes seen running with a number of small veins attached to it, but care must be taken that these threads are connected with and run, in some degree, in the same direction with the thicker veins. If durability is not an object, and the work required in a short time, it may be executed very quickly in distemper colors, and when varnished, it will look well.

Compound Colors.—The following tints can be formed by mixing the colors as below. The shades can be made to suit any taste by the exercise of a little judgment in proportioning the colors:

Cream.—White lead, yellow and red.

Drab.—White, Prussian blue and vermilion.

Fawn.—White, stone ochre and vermilion.

Flesh.—Lake, white lead, and a little vermilion.

Grey, Pearl—White lead, Prussian blue, and a very little black.

Grey, Flaxseed.—White lead, Prussian blue, and a little lake.

Gold.—Massicot, or Naples yellow, with a small quantity of Realgar and Spanish white.

Green, Light willow.—White, mixed with verdigris.