PAINTING HOUSEWORK is effected for the most part by priming, and then applying two or three coats of white lead or ceruse, in linseed oil. Colors are add ed at pleasure, of lamp-black, red lead or ochres, or pigments.
Priming, used by painters for new woodwork, is a thin solution of white and red lead in linseed oil.
Flexible Paint. (For Canvas.) In a hot soap ley, of water 6 lbs., and soap 1 lb., stir well 112 lbs. of oil paint, and use while warm.
Relief. London painters produce strik ing relief in inscriptions. The main sur face is gold, as a middle tint. The strong light of yellow ochre and white is placed at the side, and the upper and under part is in warm shade. A very strong sha dow is seen under this, upon the rose wood, which makes the warm shade ap pear as a reflected light, and a fainter shadow is put in beyond this. The effect is so masterly, that it is difficult to tell whether the letters are raised or not.
White Paint. Skim milk 2 qts.; fresh slaked lime 8 oz.; linseed oil 6 oz. ; white Burgundy pitch 2 oz.; Spanish white 3 lbs. The lime must be slaked in water, exposed to the air, mixed in about one fourth of the milk ; the oil in which the pitch is previously dissolved must be added gradually, then the rest of the milk, and afterwards the Spanish white. This quantity is sufficient for 27 square yards, two coats, and the expense not more than 10d.
Spanish. White is made by grinding fine :hulk with 1-10th of alum in water, ing and cluing in the air and then in fire.
Cheap Paint. Gas-tar mixed with yel low ochre makes an excellent green paint, well adapted for preserving course wood work and iron rails.