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Vo l . 10, No. 2 DUTCH BOY QUARTERLY 1932 IN the home, in hotels, churches, restaurants, club rooms--in fact wherever people gather socially, the demand for a new type of wall decora tion, which will be at once artistic and inexpensive, is a problem constantly before the decorator. Flat paints with conventional designs produced with ordinary stencils, while popular, frequently do not succeed in securing the precise effect sought by the decorator nor in imparting that atmosphere of distinctiveness to a room which is the high point of the decorator's art. Very often, the effort to achieve originality, as well as appropriateness in design, results in bizarre or baroque effects which are offensive to even the most inartistic observer. In order to meet the need for a versatile and economical wall finish, National Lead Company's Department of Decoration has developed the frisket stipple which should be a welcome addition to the art of the interior decorator. It is a wall design which possesses simplicity without being severe, which can be repeated endlessly without becoming monotonous, and which lends itself to a variety of moods and motifs in wall decoration. Furthermore, it not only possesses all desirable artistic merits but the fact that it can be easily, quickly and in expensively executed makes it a wall finish truly modem in every sense of the word. This new wall decoration derives its name from the cut-out paper mask through the openings of which paint is applied to the surface. The word "frisket" is a term borrowed from the printing trade where it is used to describe the cut-out sheet which, stretched on a frame and laid on the press, prevents certain parts from being printed. The effect is achieved through the use of two tones of a dominant color, blended spots of contrasting colors, and the surface stippled over all. There are practically no limits to the subjects which can be treated with the frisket stipple. The illustration above demonstrates a design for restau rant walls, the subject chosen being a portion of the New York sky-line. At the end of this article, three other designs are suggested--a mountain view, a Turkish sky-line, and a sea view. The use to which a particular room will be put determines, of course, the subject to be used. For instance, animal cut-outs would be suitable for a child's nursery. Athletes in action would be appro priate on the walls of a room in an athletic club. It is only necessary to keep in mind the fact that the real effectiveness of the frisket stipple lies in its simplicity and freedom from intricate detail. Distant views or easily silhouetted figures will be found to be the best subjects. The tools and materials needed to carry out this wall finish are simple and inexpensive: a sheet of paper suitable for cutting into a frisket or stencil, some heavy paste white-lead, Dutch Boy flatting oil, two orthreetubesofcolor-in-oil, a four-inch wall brush, a wall stippler, and a few yards of adhesive tape. The execution of a frisket stipple job is in accord ance with accepted painting practice and can be done by any responsible painter. The method is as follows: When a suitable design has been chosen, it is traced upon the stencil paper. The length of the stencil is determined by the amount of variety the decorator desires in his subject; its depth by the i n i; L >. I I fit th UL. Vo l . 10, No. 2 DUTCH BOY QUARTERLY 1932 size of room to be decorated. It is important that and there. On a gray ground, touches of Venetian the design should run off the two edges of the sheet red, chrome yellow and lampblack might be used; on the same level so that when the stencil is moved on a blue background, a little white-lead; on a buff and the design repeated, there will be no gaps or ground, burnt sienna and chrome yellow are effective. obvious joints. The design is then carefully cut out. The dabs of color are blended into the background After the walls have been thoroughly cleaned while the undercoat is still wet. the blending being and the painter is satisfied that they are in good done with a stippling brush. shape to take paint, a ground coat of a suitable On the following day when the stippled ground color is applied. Both the ground coat and the has become thoroughly dry the frisket is attached to frisket coat are stippled. The chief advantages of a the wall at the proper height above the chair rail stippled job lie in its neat satin finish which is far or wainscoting using the masking tape along the more pleasing than any brushed out job. and in the upper edge of the paper to hold it securely in place. fact that all brushmarks are eliminated. Contary On an ordinary wall, the center of the open work in to the general opinion, stippling does not add to the stencil should be about on a level with the eyes. the cost of painting. In an ordinary brushed out The same paint that was used for the ground coat paint film, the painter may be used for the is required not only stenciling. It is only to apply the paint but necessary to add more also to carefully brush of the original tinting and crossbrush in or color in order to bring der to get rid of the it to a deeper shade. brushmarks as best After the paint has he can. In stippling, been applied through the painter merely the frisket over a applies the paint with workable surface, dabs out regard to careful of tintingcolor, thinned brushing and evens with flatting oil are it out with a stippling spotted here and there brush. in the same manner As most decorators as on the ground coat know, paint to be and blended in by stippled is mixed a means of the stippling trifle thicker than or brush. When one dinary wall paint. stretch is done, the This is essential since masking tape is the stippling . brush stripped off and the brings the little points frisket moved along of paint out as the to the next stretch brush leaves the sur and the process re face and these points peated. When the tend to flow back Part of frisket raised to show section of wall on which skyline design entire wall has been more completely with has been applied coated and stenciled, thin paint than with freehand figures may a thicker mixture. The thickness of the paint is be painted in here and there for greater effectiveness. determined by the degree of stippling desired. As has been said, the chief advantages of the One hundred pounds of heavy paste white-lead frisket stipple lie in its adaptability to any size or thinned with two gallons of flatting' oil make a type of room, in the wide variety of subjects which good heavy bodied paint suitable for this purpose. can be treated with it, and in the fact that it is The color of the ground coat will be determined by inexpensive. Although it is best fitted, perhaps, the design that has been chosen. If a city sky-line, for restaurant walls, club rooms, etc., where it will a pale gray will do; if a sea view, a pale blue; if a be found to be a happy medium between conven desert, a light buff; and so on. tional designs and expensive murals, it offers a very When a workable stretch has been coated in, dabs effective treatment for corridor walls in schools or of color thinned with flatting oil are applied here office buildings, waiting rooms and halls. IS