HOW SHALL WE PAINT OUR HOUSES

ISBN: 9780267989119 Géneros: AB Sinópsis: Excerpt from How Shall We Paint Our Houses A Popular Treatise on the Art of HousePainting Plain and Decorative Showing the Nature Composition and Mode of Production of Paints and Painters Colors and Their Proper and Harmonious Combination and ArrangementIf housepainting consisted of merely covering the woodwork of a dwelling with one or more coats of white paint to speak of it as a fine art would hardly be justifiable but so far is such from being the case that to conduct successfully the business of painting in our cities and larger towns requires the exercise of those faculties which in general acceptation are supposed to distinguish the artist from the mechanic An eye prompt by nature and education to distinguish the nice gradations of colors and tints and the faculty so to arrange and dispose them as shall best harmonize them with each other and with the surroundings are indispensable requisites in the housepainter of the present dayAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart 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