Salmon, William: Polygraphice: Or, The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming: In Four Books ... To which is added A Discourse of Perspective and Chiromancy (London, 1675)

Chap. 2 4. Preparations for Limning. 9 3
per the colours with , when there is oecafion.
li. Belidcs the pencils you Limn with, a large,
clean, and dry pencil, to clean se die work from any
kind of dust, that may fall upon it, which one called
fitch- pencils.
III. A (harp Pen-knife to take off hairs that may
come srom your pencil, either among the colours or
upon the work j or to take out spots that may fall up-
on the Card or Table.
IV. A paper with a hole cut therein, to lay over
the card, to keep it from dust and tilth, to rest your
hand upon, and to keep the soil and sweat of your
hand sromsullying the parchment, as alsoto try your
pencils on before you use them.
Let the sinal I glajJeSj waters, pencils and pn-k>rise
Ik all on the right hand.
V. Have ready a quantity of light Carnation or
flcsh colour temper*1 d up in a stell by it self with a
weak gum-water •> if it be a fair complexion y
mix White and Red-lead together? if a brown or
swarthy, add to the former, Masticot, or I nglish
Oker, or both : but be sare the fiesh colour be
always lighter than the complexion you would
IJmn ■■> for by working on it you may bring it to
its true colour.
VI. In a large Horse-muscle (hell place your seve-
ral shadows ( for the rlesh colour J in little places one
distinds from another.
VII. In all shadowings have ready some white,
and lay a good quantity of it by it sels betides what
the shadows are firlt mixed with: for Red for the
cheeks and lips, temper Lake and Red-lead toge-
ther : for blew shadows ( as under the eyes and in
veins) Indico or Ultramarine and white: for gray
faint shadows, white ? EngUsh Oker, sometimes
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