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lighten a deep colour, taking care to make the fhadows in their
due places, as in the cheeks, lips, tip of the chin, and ears, the
eyes, and roots of the hair: Do not fhadow with a fiat pencil,
but by fmall touches, and fo go over the face.
7. Strive, as near as poffibly you can, in this dead-colouring,
to imitate nature rather than to be curious.
8. Having put the red fhadows into their due places, fhadow
about the colours, borders, and balls of the eyes with a faint
blue, and under the eyes and about the temples with a greyifh
blue ; heightening the fhadows as the light falls; alfo the harder
fhadows in the dark fide of the face, under the eye-brows, chin,
and neck.
9. Bring all the work to an equality, but add perfection to no
particular part at that time ; but imitate the life in likenefs,
roundnefs, boldnefs, pofture, colour, and the like.
10. Lafily, touch at the hair with a fuitable colour, in fuch
curls, folds, and form, as may either agree with the life, or grace
the picture : Fill the empty places with colour, and deepen it
more ftrongly than in the deepeft fhadowed before.
11. The operation at the fecond fitting. As it has been, before
laid but rudely, fo you muff, fweeten thofe varieties which na-
ture affords, with the fame colours, and in the fame place, dri-
ving them one into another; yet fo as that no lump or fpot of
colour or rough edge may appear in the whole of the work; and
this is to be done with a fharper pencil than that you ufed before.
12. Having done this, go to the back fide of the picture,
which, if it be a landfcape, or a blue or red fattin curtain ; if it
be blue, temper up as much bice as will cover a card, which
mix very well with gum ; and draw the outlines of the curtain
with a pencil, as alfo the whole picture : Then, on the whole
ground on which you intend to lay the blue, lay with a large
pencil thinly, or airily, over the whole ground ; and afterwards
lay over the fame a fubftantial body of colour, which ought to
be done nimbly, keeping the colour moift, and not fuffering any
part to be dry'till you have covered the whole.
13. If the colour of the curtain is to be of a crimfon colour,
lay the ground of a thin colour, and lay the light with a thin
waterifh colour where they fall; and, while the ground is yet
wet, lav the ftrong and hard fhadows clofe by the other lights,
with a ltrong dark colour, tempered fomething thickifh.
14. Then lay the linen with a faint white, and the drapery
fiat, of fuch a colour as you would have it be.
15. Obferve what fhadows in the face are too light or too
deep for the curtain behind, and the drapery, and reduce each
to their due degree of height; draw the lines of the eye-lids,
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lighten a deep colour, taking care to make the fhadows in their
due places, as in the cheeks, lips, tip of the chin, and ears, the
eyes, and roots of the hair: Do not fhadow with a fiat pencil,
but by fmall touches, and fo go over the face.
7. Strive, as near as poffibly you can, in this dead-colouring,
to imitate nature rather than to be curious.
8. Having put the red fhadows into their due places, fhadow
about the colours, borders, and balls of the eyes with a faint
blue, and under the eyes and about the temples with a greyifh
blue ; heightening the fhadows as the light falls; alfo the harder
fhadows in the dark fide of the face, under the eye-brows, chin,
and neck.
9. Bring all the work to an equality, but add perfection to no
particular part at that time ; but imitate the life in likenefs,
roundnefs, boldnefs, pofture, colour, and the like.
10. Lafily, touch at the hair with a fuitable colour, in fuch
curls, folds, and form, as may either agree with the life, or grace
the picture : Fill the empty places with colour, and deepen it
more ftrongly than in the deepeft fhadowed before.
11. The operation at the fecond fitting. As it has been, before
laid but rudely, fo you muff, fweeten thofe varieties which na-
ture affords, with the fame colours, and in the fame place, dri-
ving them one into another; yet fo as that no lump or fpot of
colour or rough edge may appear in the whole of the work; and
this is to be done with a fharper pencil than that you ufed before.
12. Having done this, go to the back fide of the picture,
which, if it be a landfcape, or a blue or red fattin curtain ; if it
be blue, temper up as much bice as will cover a card, which
mix very well with gum ; and draw the outlines of the curtain
with a pencil, as alfo the whole picture : Then, on the whole
ground on which you intend to lay the blue, lay with a large
pencil thinly, or airily, over the whole ground ; and afterwards
lay over the fame a fubftantial body of colour, which ought to
be done nimbly, keeping the colour moift, and not fuffering any
part to be dry'till you have covered the whole.
13. If the colour of the curtain is to be of a crimfon colour,
lay the ground of a thin colour, and lay the light with a thin
waterifh colour where they fall; and, while the ground is yet
wet, lav the ftrong and hard fhadows clofe by the other lights,
with a ltrong dark colour, tempered fomething thickifh.
14. Then lay the linen with a faint white, and the drapery
fiat, of fuch a colour as you would have it be.
15. Obferve what fhadows in the face are too light or too
deep for the curtain behind, and the drapery, and reduce each
to their due degree of height; draw the lines of the eye-lids,
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