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2. Primer (paint) - Wikipedia

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   Primer (paint) A water-based primer, used primarily on wood. A primer ( / ˈpraɪmər /) or undercoat is a preparatory coating put on materials before painting. Priming ensures better adhesion of paint to the surface, increases paint durability, and provides additional protection for the material being painted. [1]

3. Danish oil - Wikipedia

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   Danish oil is a hard drying oil, meaning it can polymerize into a solid form when it reacts with oxygen in the atmosphere. It can provide a hard-wearing, often water-resistant satin finish, or serve as a primer on bare wood before applying paint or varnish. It is a "long oil" finish, a mixture of oil and varnish, typically around one-third ...

4. Gesso - Wikipedia

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   Gesso is traditionally a mix of an animal glue binder (usually rabbit-skin glue ), chalk, and white pigment. For priming flexible canvas, an emulsion of gesso and linseed oil, also called "half-chalk ground", is used. [4] Acrylic gesso is a mixture of white pigment and some kind of filler (chalk, silica, etc.) and acrylic resin dispersed in water.

5. Transfer of panel paintings - Wikipedia

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   A less dramatic "partial transfer" tended to be used in Germany and Austria, in which a thin layer of the original wood was retained, and glued onto a new panel. References Sources. Dardes, Kathleen; Rothe, Andrea (eds.). The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings: Proceedings of a symposium at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 3.

6. Oil paint - Wikipedia

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   Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit , and varnish may be added to increase the glossiness of the dried oil paint film.

7. Wood stain - Wikipedia

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   Wood stain is a type of paint used to colour wood comprising colourants dissolved and/or suspended in a vehicle or solvent. Pigments and/or dyes are largely used as colourants in most stains. The initial application of any paint or varnish is absorbed into the substrate similarly to stains, but the binder from a stain resides mainly below the ...