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zius and others, which were extremely neat, and would not rub
out, being ftrong, and like oil-painting.
fhe manner of laying the ground jiejh-colour for a face to he
^vrought upon with Crayons. The beff. way, fays Mr. Brown,
is to colour the paper that you intend to draw on with a carna-
tion or flefh-colour, near the complexion of the party you intend
to draw after; and to cover the whole paper with the fame com-
plexion, which is made of cerufs, meny, and yellow oker ground
with a little gum arable. When you prepare them, make a
good parcel of various complexions together, it being not worth
while to make one at a time.—This ground colour rnuft be laid
on with a wet fponge, but let the colour be fo bound with gum,
that it will not Itir from the paper by rubbing with your finger
on it.
When this ground is dry, then fketch or draw the firft rough
draught with coal; that being as you would have it, draw over
the lame line again more perfectly with red chalk ; then, with
your feveral Crayons, you are to rub in your colours firft; then,
with yoUr fingers, you are to fweeten and mix them together,
tumbling them one into another, after the manner of the oil-
painters. And, becaufe many times the Crayons will not {harpen
to fo good a point as black or red chalk, you rnuft be extremely
carefuj to clofe and finifh all your work at laft with red and black
chalk, which you may (harpen at your pleafure.
There is another ordinary way of drawing in Crayons on blue
paper ; the ground colours are to be rubbed in firft with a pen-
cil, and afterwards with a flubbed pencil or your finger. And,
if you pleafe, you may work upon parchment exceeding neat
and curious.
Of the making of Crayons for dry colouring. The ufe of
Crayons for dry colouring is fo necelTary jn taking off" views and
profpeefsj and there are fo few Crayons that are good of the fort,
that I think the way of making them a neceflary article to be
known to every one, who is a lover of drawing and painting.
White. As for white, we have no occafion of any other than
that of white foft chalk, which lhould be fawed into lengths of
an inch and an half or two inches. When you have fawed out
your Crayons of chalk, which fhould be at moft a quarter of an
inch thick, round off the corners with a penknife, and point
them by drawing your penknife upwards from the place where
the point is to be. You ought to have a dozen or two of thefe
to lie in a little cafe by themiclves, or they will be difcoloured
by the ofherg.
Yellow. Yellows come next, which iliould be divided into four
or five degrees of colour.
jft Yellow. Take fbme grounds of ftarch and flower of brim-
ftone,
zius and others, which were extremely neat, and would not rub
out, being ftrong, and like oil-painting.
fhe manner of laying the ground jiejh-colour for a face to he
^vrought upon with Crayons. The beff. way, fays Mr. Brown,
is to colour the paper that you intend to draw on with a carna-
tion or flefh-colour, near the complexion of the party you intend
to draw after; and to cover the whole paper with the fame com-
plexion, which is made of cerufs, meny, and yellow oker ground
with a little gum arable. When you prepare them, make a
good parcel of various complexions together, it being not worth
while to make one at a time.—This ground colour rnuft be laid
on with a wet fponge, but let the colour be fo bound with gum,
that it will not Itir from the paper by rubbing with your finger
on it.
When this ground is dry, then fketch or draw the firft rough
draught with coal; that being as you would have it, draw over
the lame line again more perfectly with red chalk ; then, with
your feveral Crayons, you are to rub in your colours firft; then,
with yoUr fingers, you are to fweeten and mix them together,
tumbling them one into another, after the manner of the oil-
painters. And, becaufe many times the Crayons will not {harpen
to fo good a point as black or red chalk, you rnuft be extremely
carefuj to clofe and finifh all your work at laft with red and black
chalk, which you may (harpen at your pleafure.
There is another ordinary way of drawing in Crayons on blue
paper ; the ground colours are to be rubbed in firft with a pen-
cil, and afterwards with a flubbed pencil or your finger. And,
if you pleafe, you may work upon parchment exceeding neat
and curious.
Of the making of Crayons for dry colouring. The ufe of
Crayons for dry colouring is fo necelTary jn taking off" views and
profpeefsj and there are fo few Crayons that are good of the fort,
that I think the way of making them a neceflary article to be
known to every one, who is a lover of drawing and painting.
White. As for white, we have no occafion of any other than
that of white foft chalk, which lhould be fawed into lengths of
an inch and an half or two inches. When you have fawed out
your Crayons of chalk, which fhould be at moft a quarter of an
inch thick, round off the corners with a penknife, and point
them by drawing your penknife upwards from the place where
the point is to be. You ought to have a dozen or two of thefe
to lie in a little cafe by themiclves, or they will be difcoloured
by the ofherg.
Yellow. Yellows come next, which iliould be divided into four
or five degrees of colour.
jft Yellow. Take fbme grounds of ftarch and flower of brim-
ftone,