The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (2.1788)

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Water. Blue and White, fhaded with Blue, and
heightened with White.

Directions for laying on the different Colours.,

Before you begin, have all your colours ready before
you, a pallette for the conveniency of mixing them ; a
paper to lay under your hand, to keep your work clean,
as well as to try your colours on; alfo a large brum
called a fitch, to wipe off the dun: when your colours
are dry.

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Lay your colours on but thinly at firfr, deepening and
mellowing them by degrees as you fee occafion. The
quicker you lay them on, the evener and cleaner your
drawing will appear.

Take care to preferve all your colours from duft; and
before you ufe them, wipe your fhells and pallette every
time with your fitch.

When you have done your work, or would lay it
afide, be careful to warn out your pencils in clean warm
water.

For face-painting, mix up carnation or fiefh-colour
with gum-water in a {hell by itfelf. For a fair com-
plexion mix vermilion and flake white ; for a fwarthy
one, add a little mafticot, Englifh ochre, or both.

Let your flefh-colour be always lighter than the com-
plexion you would paint; for by working on it, you
may eafdy lower it.

For the cheeks and lips, ufe ,a mixture cf lake and
red lead, or carmine, as occafion requires ; and for blue
teints, (as under the eyes, and in the veins) indigo or ul-
tramarine and white.

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