Secrets Concerning Colors and Painting |
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Main Title, Index and Introduction Secrets relative to the Art of EngravingSecrets for the Composition of Varnishes, etc. Secrets of Mastichs, Cements, Sealing-wax, etc. Secrets of Glass Manufactory - Compositions to Imitate Precious Stones, called French Paste Secrets Concerning Colors and Painting The Art of Dying Woods, Bones, etc. Making curious and useful sorts of Ink
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CII. Directions for coloring prints. 1. All the colors which are used for coloring prints are grinded with gum water; the calcined green only excepted, which grinds with vinegar. 2. The chief of these colors are, fine azure, vermilion, Venetian lake, fine verditure, white lead, calcined green, umber, Cologn earth, indigo, French berries juice, yellow ocre, yellow massicot; white massicot, brown ochre, bistre, prepared soot lamp-black and brown red. 3. For the complexions, make a mixture of white and vermilion, more or less, according as you want he color. For the lips it is a mixture of lake and vermilion, and a great deal of umber. 4. For fair hair, join a good deal of white with very little umber. If a carroty color, take yellow ochre and brown red; the shade with bistre and lake mixed together. If light, only mix some black and white and umber together. 5. Clothes, are made, if linen, with white lead and a little blue; if stuffs, with white lead alone, and the shades with a grey color, made by means of a mixture of black and white lead together. If a white cloth, you must make a mixture of whiter and umber together, and shade it with a compound of umber and black. If a red cloth, use vermilion in the lighter parts of the folds, lake and vermilion for the clear shades; the lake alone, laid on the vermilion, will form the dark shades..
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