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A smaller 10x14 canvas, cleaned only with benzine on the whitish lead ground, then [[strikethrough]] oiled with [[/strikethrough]]primed over with Cremnitz White + Popoma is quite moist after 40 hours.--
[[underline]]General Problems [[/underline]] 1). If a [[underlined in yellow paint ?]] canvas is [[/underline]] primed with best Cremnitz White and coated thinly also with Zinc White and a year old, it is fit to paint on. One must prepare it oneself. 2) The next best is to buy best ready primed [[underlined in yellow paint ?]] old canvas [[/underline]] and wash it and dry it and coat it with Combination White. 3.) Only [[underlined in yellow paint ?]] Oil lead ground [[/underline]] is durable, not subject to moisture of atmosphere and suff-y elastic to adhere to the wood or canvas under heat expansion and cold contraction. 4.) Oil ground does not absorb the oil from painting as chalk ground does, hence leaves to oil color, if [[underline]] little oil [[/underline]] is used in it, the Brilliancy, which chalk ground by the absorption of oil looses all white translucency, hence the color is on a grey ground, although it get itself rid of superfluous oil. 5). Chalk is luminous phosphorescent, used as night signal paint. It ought to be made preferable to white lead, since it contains no oil and remains white. 3.) The next best ist to paint in heavy white on old grey ground; either mixing all colors with white or underpaint with white those colors which require glazing not to loose their hue.

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