The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-12-12
h ART OF PAINTING.


THE ART OF PAINTING.
The following recipes, prepared by a
practical painter, have been sold for a dol
lar. We give them to our readers taken
from the Due Wst Telescope.
4, To Boil Oa-In boiling oil, new
ev Gil your kettle moro than two.tbirds,
or it may run over and take fire. Place
your kettle on the Goals, simmer your
oil till It will scerch feather, when it
viii bs fit for use.
2. To Grind Pdint.-Put your paint
Qua large fat stone, with a smooth face,
wet your paint with oil, and grind until
fne; be careful to grind fine, or there
will be q waste of the paint, and your
work will not look well.
x Mixture for Drying Paint
Take 3 ounces o fred lead. 8 ounces Ii
fharge,4 ounces of umber; make fine, put
them into a gallon of oil; simmer to-
Eether M hour, then strain, pour in
one pint of the spirits of turpentine.
add one gill to one quart of paint to
make it dry fast.
Painting on Wood.-In any kind
Of painting, your paint must be of the
proper consistency, your wood clean and
smooth, and you must have a proper
brush, or you cannot do good work. 1t
Is as necessary that a painter have good
tools as any other mechanic, to enable
> him to make a good job. / have seen
hous,s and other things spoiled with
poorbrushes.
To Paint a Hoase WHite-Miz
4quarts of liDseed oil with one keg of
whitehead thoroughly. Commence at
the top and paint six or eight boards at
one through, using great care to lay the
paint even and smooth. In putting on
three coats, make the second the thickest
adding q little Prussian blue to the last
coat to make the white more clear. Be
scarefulnot to use=too much blue and
Jon must putty all the holes and cracks
before the last coat is applied.
6. Cream Color-Add finely ground
chrome yellow to white paint, (see No.
s., q little at a time till the shade pleas
es you. Yeu must add yellow every
coat to have a good finish.
2. Lead Cakor.-Add finely ground
lamp black to white paint, mo. 81 till
the color suits you.
8. Bzue PaiHt.-Prepare a sufficient
quantity of white paint, then add finely
igrsund Prussia blue in oil. Add a lit
tile ats time, until the color is light or
dark as you may want the shade.
g. BAack-In preparing black paint,
grind lamp black in oil and as black
dries slowly, you should add two ounces
.ofltharge, to every pint Of paint. Al
ways use boiled oil for black, to give it a
body.
10. Fsrdigvis Green-Wrap verdi
girls in cabbage or other large leaves.
and place it o the hearth, over which
scatter cold ashes, then cover with Goals ;
aet It roast one hour, remove, and when
cold grind in oil. This is not SO apt to
fade as other green; and isuscd for out
side work.
III. Common Green.-This is eompoe.
ed of nearly equal quantities of Prus.
sian blue and chrome yellow. 1t must
be ground very fine in oil. The shade
Hnay be varied with waite-lead.
H. Another Green-You may pur-
chase patent green ready for grinding.
which is beautiful if genuine; to be
ground as other paint
50. Stone CoLor-Burn UNI Der on an
iron plate until it is of q reddish cast.
No color looks better for a room if we'll
put or.
IA. Stone Color Of a beautiful Green
Shade.-Add to white paint, sufficient
to make q light drab; then green enough
to make a green shade.
Is. Orange Coz0r.-Combine white
lead with chrome yellow in the proper
proportion to make a bright straw-color,
then add red lead to tinge it to an or.
angc.
TO- Strap Color.-Number Is makes
= straw color by leaving out the red
lead.
~. Dark Stoaae Color-Add lumber
to light lead color, (see No-7,) till the
color suits.
i8. Blossom Colv.-To white paint
add red or Venitian red, till the color
please. Red-lead is the best.
10. HesA Co1Or,-To white paint add
chrome yellow enough to change its
shade, then some red-lead, and a very
small quantity Of black till the color
suits.
20 Best CopaL Kynish-Reduce
two bs.sof gum copal to fine powder and
pour Il iato q copper kettle that will
hold 8 or 4 gallons, and melt it over a
Ere Of charcoal. When the gum is dis
solved, add n pint and a half of hot
haxseed oil, having removed the gum
from of the fire, stirring smartly while
adding the oil. When it is partly cool.
add slowly three quarts of spirits of tur-
uentine. still stirring. Care must be
taken that the contents of the kettle are
not too hot nor too cool while adding the
turpeDtine ; if too hot it viii take fro