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26 CORRECTION OF ACCIDENTS IN COLOURING.
which you may have bestowed some pains, however
much you may for the time disapprove of it. Many a
work of really promising excellence has, in a fit of ill
humour or momentary disappointment, been thoughtlessly
destroyed. Should any feeling of this kind arise, let the
drawing be put aside with its face to the wall, and there
remain until nearly forgotten : when taken up again, the
result may be, upon viewing it with a fresh eye, that
beauties will probably be discovered sufficient to elicit
renewed energy for bringing the work to a successful
termination.
Sometimes certain changes must be made in the draw-
ing ; and these are best effected by a piece of wetted wash-
leather wrapped round the forefinger.
This mode is frequently more manageable than that of
using the sponge; especially when the erasure is not
broad. The employment of the wet leather is useful for
producing (on paper of a granulated surface) effects of
gravel or sandy shores ; the desired texture being obtained
by gently rubbing off a portion of the colours from the
summits of the granulations of the paper.
If, however, a considerable change be required, a
sponge can be most effectively employed in removing the
colour so entirely as to recover the white ground of the
paper. If the colours have soiled the paper so much as
to render it difficult to perfectly recover the white surface
of the paper, this may be effected by washing over the
part, from which the colour has been removed, wTith
Chinese White diluted with water so as to be only semi-
transparent. Upon the surface thus prepared, the colours
will be shown in as much purity as they would be on the
unsullied paper.
which you may have bestowed some pains, however
much you may for the time disapprove of it. Many a
work of really promising excellence has, in a fit of ill
humour or momentary disappointment, been thoughtlessly
destroyed. Should any feeling of this kind arise, let the
drawing be put aside with its face to the wall, and there
remain until nearly forgotten : when taken up again, the
result may be, upon viewing it with a fresh eye, that
beauties will probably be discovered sufficient to elicit
renewed energy for bringing the work to a successful
termination.
Sometimes certain changes must be made in the draw-
ing ; and these are best effected by a piece of wetted wash-
leather wrapped round the forefinger.
This mode is frequently more manageable than that of
using the sponge; especially when the erasure is not
broad. The employment of the wet leather is useful for
producing (on paper of a granulated surface) effects of
gravel or sandy shores ; the desired texture being obtained
by gently rubbing off a portion of the colours from the
summits of the granulations of the paper.
If, however, a considerable change be required, a
sponge can be most effectively employed in removing the
colour so entirely as to recover the white ground of the
paper. If the colours have soiled the paper so much as
to render it difficult to perfectly recover the white surface
of the paper, this may be effected by washing over the
part, from which the colour has been removed, wTith
Chinese White diluted with water so as to be only semi-
transparent. Upon the surface thus prepared, the colours
will be shown in as much purity as they would be on the
unsullied paper.