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THE ARTIST'S ASSISTANT. 95
In finifhed works, which are to be viewed near
at hand, the procefs is either by applying each co-
lour in its place ; prefcrving their purity, without
fretting or tormenting them, but fwcetly foftening
off the extremities ; or by filling up all the great
/or o
parts with one hngle colour ; and laying the other
colours which are to form the little things upon it,
which is the more expeditious way, but more aDt
to decay.
For the fecond ; the kinds of pictures in one co-
lour are two, viz. camieux, where the degradations
of colours of objefts afar off, are ufually managed
by lights, or with crayons, and bafs relievo, which
is an imitation of fculpture, of whatfoever matter and
colour; in both thefe the colours are wrought dry.
For the ceconomy, and difpenfmg of colours in
paintings, regard is either to be had, firft, to the
qualities of the colours, to appropriate them ac-
cording to their value and agreement : or, fecondly,
to their effeft, in the union and ceconomy of the
work.
For the qualities, it muff, be obferved, that white
rcprefents light, and gives the brifknefs and height-
ening : black, on the contrary, like darknefs, ob-
fcures and effaces the objefts : again, black fets off
the light parts, and by that they ferve each other
to loofen the objefts. A proper choice to be made
of colours ; and the too much charged manner to
be avoided; both in carnations, where red colours
are not to be affefted, or rather refembling the
flefh when flead from the fkin, how delicate foever,
being always of a bloom colour. In the drapery,
where the painter has his whole ftock of colours to
choofc out of to procure a good effeft; and in the
landfkape,
In finifhed works, which are to be viewed near
at hand, the procefs is either by applying each co-
lour in its place ; prefcrving their purity, without
fretting or tormenting them, but fwcetly foftening
off the extremities ; or by filling up all the great
/or o
parts with one hngle colour ; and laying the other
colours which are to form the little things upon it,
which is the more expeditious way, but more aDt
to decay.
For the fecond ; the kinds of pictures in one co-
lour are two, viz. camieux, where the degradations
of colours of objefts afar off, are ufually managed
by lights, or with crayons, and bafs relievo, which
is an imitation of fculpture, of whatfoever matter and
colour; in both thefe the colours are wrought dry.
For the ceconomy, and difpenfmg of colours in
paintings, regard is either to be had, firft, to the
qualities of the colours, to appropriate them ac-
cording to their value and agreement : or, fecondly,
to their effeft, in the union and ceconomy of the
work.
For the qualities, it muff, be obferved, that white
rcprefents light, and gives the brifknefs and height-
ening : black, on the contrary, like darknefs, ob-
fcures and effaces the objefts : again, black fets off
the light parts, and by that they ferve each other
to loofen the objefts. A proper choice to be made
of colours ; and the too much charged manner to
be avoided; both in carnations, where red colours
are not to be affefted, or rather refembling the
flefh when flead from the fkin, how delicate foever,
being always of a bloom colour. In the drapery,
where the painter has his whole ftock of colours to
choofc out of to procure a good effeft; and in the
landfkape,