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feen in all kinds of lights; which colours in oil, or covered with
varnifh, cannot.
Of preparations for Limning. I. Be provided with two
/hells, or fmall glafles, to hold clean water ; the one for tem-
pering the colours with, and the other for waffling your pencils
in when they are foul.
2. Befides thofe pencils you limn with, have a large clean
dry pencil, to cleanfe your work from any kind of duft that may
fall upon it: Thefe pencils are called fitch pencils.
3. A fharp penknife, for taking hold of any loofe or ffraggling
hairs that may come out of your pencil, either upon the work
or among the colours; or to take out fpecks of any thing that
may fall upon your card or table.
4. A paper with a hole cut in it to lay over your card, to
keep it from duft and filth to reft \our hand upon, and to keep
the parchment from being fuliied by the foil and fweat of your
hand ; as alfo for trying your pencils on before you ufe them.
5. Be provided with a quantity of light carnation or flefh co-
lour, tempered up in a (hell by itfelf, with a weak gum water,
made of white and red lead, if it be for a fair complexion ; to
which add a little mafticote or Enclifli oker, or both, if it be
for a brown complexion.
6. But you muft be fure to take care, that the flefh colour be
always lighter than the complexion you would repTefent; for
that it may be brought to its true colour. *
7. Place your feveral fhadows, for the flefh colour, in a large
horfe mufcle-fhell in little places diftin£t from one another.
8. Lay a good quantity of white by itfelf, that it may be
ready in all fhadowings, befides what the fhadovvings are firft
mixed with.
9. For red for the cheeks and lips, temper lake and red lead
together ; and indigo, or ultramarine, and white for blue fha-
dows, as thofe under the eyes and veins.
10. For grey, faint fhadows, white, Engli(h oker, and fome-
times mafticote ; for deep fhadows, white, Englifh oker,
umber; for dark fhadows, lake and pink, which make a good
flefhy fhadow. *
ix. In making choice of a light, let it be fair and large, one
northerly and not foutherly, and free from fnadows of houfes or
trees ; and all clear iky-lights coming in direcf from above, and
not tranfverfe. As to the room, let it be clofe and clean, and
free from the fun-beams.
12. As to the manner of fitting, let the deflc on which you
work be fo fituate, that, fitting before it, your left arm may be
towards the light, that the light may ftrike fideling upon your
work.
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feen in all kinds of lights; which colours in oil, or covered with
varnifh, cannot.
Of preparations for Limning. I. Be provided with two
/hells, or fmall glafles, to hold clean water ; the one for tem-
pering the colours with, and the other for waffling your pencils
in when they are foul.
2. Befides thofe pencils you limn with, have a large clean
dry pencil, to cleanfe your work from any kind of duft that may
fall upon it: Thefe pencils are called fitch pencils.
3. A fharp penknife, for taking hold of any loofe or ffraggling
hairs that may come out of your pencil, either upon the work
or among the colours; or to take out fpecks of any thing that
may fall upon your card or table.
4. A paper with a hole cut in it to lay over your card, to
keep it from duft and filth to reft \our hand upon, and to keep
the parchment from being fuliied by the foil and fweat of your
hand ; as alfo for trying your pencils on before you ufe them.
5. Be provided with a quantity of light carnation or flefh co-
lour, tempered up in a (hell by itfelf, with a weak gum water,
made of white and red lead, if it be for a fair complexion ; to
which add a little mafticote or Enclifli oker, or both, if it be
for a brown complexion.
6. But you muft be fure to take care, that the flefh colour be
always lighter than the complexion you would repTefent; for
that it may be brought to its true colour. *
7. Place your feveral fhadows, for the flefh colour, in a large
horfe mufcle-fhell in little places diftin£t from one another.
8. Lay a good quantity of white by itfelf, that it may be
ready in all fhadowings, befides what the fhadovvings are firft
mixed with.
9. For red for the cheeks and lips, temper lake and red lead
together ; and indigo, or ultramarine, and white for blue fha-
dows, as thofe under the eyes and veins.
10. For grey, faint fhadows, white, Engli(h oker, and fome-
times mafticote ; for deep fhadows, white, Englifh oker,
umber; for dark fhadows, lake and pink, which make a good
flefhy fhadow. *
ix. In making choice of a light, let it be fair and large, one
northerly and not foutherly, and free from fnadows of houfes or
trees ; and all clear iky-lights coming in direcf from above, and
not tranfverfe. As to the room, let it be clofe and clean, and
free from the fun-beams.
12. As to the manner of fitting, let the deflc on which you
work be fo fituate, that, fitting before it, your left arm may be
towards the light, that the light may ftrike fideling upon your
work.
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