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THE ARTIST'S ASSISTANT. 93
beaten pretty ft iff. This layer being well dried,
you will fketch and defign your fubjeft ; and at laft
paint it over ; mixing a little varnifh with your
colours, to fave the varnifhing afterwards.
Others, to fortify their wall better againft moif-
ture, cover it with a plaifter of lime, marble duft,
or a cement made of beaten tiles foaked with lin-
feed oil; and at laft prepare a compofition of Greek,
pitch, maftich, and thick varnifh, boiled together,
which they apply hot over the former plaifter;
when dry, the colours are applied as before.
To paint on wood.—They ufually give their
ground a layer of white, tempered with fize ; or
they apply the oil abovementioned. The reft as in
painting on walls.
To paint on cloth or canvas.—The canvas being
ftretched on a frame, vou muft give it a layer of
fize. or pafte water. When dry you fhall go over
with a pumice ltone, to fmooth off the knots.
When the cloth is dry, a lay of oker muft be laid
on. fometimes mixing with it a little white lead to
make it dry the fooner. When dry you will go again
over it with the pumice ftone, to make it fmooth.
After this, a iccond layer, compofed of white
lead, and a little charcoal black is fometimes added,
to render the ground of an afh colour; obferving
in each manner to lay on as little colour as poffible.
As little oil is to be ufed as poffible, if it be de-
fired to have the colours keep frefh ; for this reafon
fome mix them with oil of afpic, which evaporates
immediately, yet ferves to make them manageable
with the pencil.
As to oils, the beft are thofe of walnuts, linfeed,
afpic, and turpentine. The dehecative or drying
oils,
beaten pretty ft iff. This layer being well dried,
you will fketch and defign your fubjeft ; and at laft
paint it over ; mixing a little varnifh with your
colours, to fave the varnifhing afterwards.
Others, to fortify their wall better againft moif-
ture, cover it with a plaifter of lime, marble duft,
or a cement made of beaten tiles foaked with lin-
feed oil; and at laft prepare a compofition of Greek,
pitch, maftich, and thick varnifh, boiled together,
which they apply hot over the former plaifter;
when dry, the colours are applied as before.
To paint on wood.—They ufually give their
ground a layer of white, tempered with fize ; or
they apply the oil abovementioned. The reft as in
painting on walls.
To paint on cloth or canvas.—The canvas being
ftretched on a frame, vou muft give it a layer of
fize. or pafte water. When dry you fhall go over
with a pumice ltone, to fmooth off the knots.
When the cloth is dry, a lay of oker muft be laid
on. fometimes mixing with it a little white lead to
make it dry the fooner. When dry you will go again
over it with the pumice ftone, to make it fmooth.
After this, a iccond layer, compofed of white
lead, and a little charcoal black is fometimes added,
to render the ground of an afh colour; obferving
in each manner to lay on as little colour as poffible.
As little oil is to be ufed as poffible, if it be de-
fired to have the colours keep frefh ; for this reafon
fome mix them with oil of afpic, which evaporates
immediately, yet ferves to make them manageable
with the pencil.
As to oils, the beft are thofe of walnuts, linfeed,
afpic, and turpentine. The dehecative or drying
oils,