Paint and Colour Mixing: A Practical Handbook for Painters, Decorators and All Who Have to Mix Coulours, Containing 72 Samples of Paint of Various ... and Upwards of 400 Different Colour Mixtures - Tapa dura

Excerpt from Paint and Colour Mixing: A Practical Handbook for Painters, Decorators and All Who Have to Mix Coulours, Containing 72 Samples of Paint of Various Colours, Including the Principal Graining Grounds, and Upwards of 400 Different Colour Mixtures

The author would for some reasons be inclined to offer an apology for this work in its present form, because it falls so far short of what might be expected in a comprehensive treatise on the subject of which it treats. To understand colour mixing the student should first carefully study colour theory, and then the properties of pigments. But it will be observed that there is but little relating to theory in this work, and the reasons are given distinctly, and are, in brief, that the subject is too complex a one to render it possible for it to be dealt with in the limited range of these pages, while another reason is that the subject is very well covered in several books published in late years by Professor church, george H. Hurst, Professor Roon, and others.

The author, however, has ample justification for the publication of this little work in the fact that he has during the last fifteen years received, in his capacity as editor of painters' publications, enquiries almost daily for a book giving colour mixtures, with actual samples of colours, in other words, one which would be useful to the man who wants to mix paints but who has not made a study of the subject.

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