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

retired, is too obvious to need explanation ; yet, even
fhadows are aitered by reflections from their neighbours.

It is evident, from this mode of reafoning, that to fet
a pallette well, requires no mean fkill; and perhaps, if
thofe who confider it as labour loft, were to beftow
more attention to it, their pictures would not fare the
worfe ; efpecially in fubjects which require cleannefs of
teints.

progress of a picture.

Heads muft be treated agreeable to the principles
laid down in the article Crayons ; we mean as to
placing the teints, blues, reds, &c. and to that we refer.

We fuppofe this picture to reprefent a figure.

Fir ft fketch the outline, attitude, &c. of the figure with
white chalk, then more correctly with a thin tranfparent
colour, lake for inftance, till it is to your mind. Pro-
ceed next to lay in the larger parts with their proper
colours, lights and ihades: by degrees producing an
effect in the whole. This may be called the fcheme, or
plan for a picture ; and, like other plans, if well laid,
will greatly facilitate the remaining operations. The
picture being thus dead-coloured, affords an oppor-
tunity of comparing its colours, their relations and
effects. In the progrefs of the piece, fome muft be
kept down, others heightened * fome muft tend more to
red, to yellow, to gre<:n, &c. in order to introduce an
union and harmony : rhus far may be called a fecond
plan. There remains to hnifh it, to impart force
and relief whe$5 wanted, and freihnefs of teint to the

carnations,