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Painter

Scribes achieve darkening of lake & other
colors for garments with egg yolk, but this is a delusion and
does not last.

Others glaze rouges de mine & others which are not
beautiful in oilMusing glair of the
egg, and it appears to be done in oil. But
humidity corrupts all this.


Broisses

Take those that have been used a little by white-limers,
for the harshness of the quick-lime & use make them easier to
handle.


Painting after nature

One ought not to undertake to work on it in overcast
weather because you would make your flesh tones browner than they
ought to be.


Paindre d’aprest

For blue, they take the roughest azure d'email & grind it
on shale, & mix in two or three rosary
beads' worth of roquaille or more, according to the
quantity of the work. And having done their drawing with noir
d’escaille (which is painted towards the light with the piece
of glass upright), they lay all their pieces on white
paperwhen for knowing by the whiteness of the
paper the lighting of their histories and as
set down all colors which are of one kind all in one go. Then they heat
it up.

