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Varnish dry in an hour

Take white turpentine oil&turpentine & mastic, pulverized & passed delicately
through a sieve, & boil them together, stirring
continuously with a stick until it is dry. And put in two
liards of good eau de vie. And if you extract
the tear of mastic, it will be whiter & clearer. There is no
need to put in turpentine, but only its white turpentine
oil & mastic pulverized at your discretion, until it has
enough body. +

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which you will know when, being placed on a knifein the
wind, it does not run. This one is excellent for panels and is dry
within an hour and does not stick like the
turpentine one.


Cleaning panels

Some clean them with soapy water, others with urine,
others with white wine, for dust spoils the colors.



Spike lavender oil


One ought not to not put any into colors for it is so brisk and
penetrating that it makes the colors flake, which next come off. And for
this reason, painters use it to clean their oil
pinceaulx when they have become hard, for it renders them
soft & clean immediately, penetrating the dry color which encrusts
them. Also, painters, sometimes envious of the work
undertaken by another, in the evening secretly pour a few
drops of spike lavenderon the oil on the top
edge of the panel such that, running down, it makes a stain that
penetrates as far as the wood & destroys the colors such
that, to make the work even & of an equal composition, they are
forced to do everything again and thus lose their work.


Wood color



One gives a layer of bistre, then a coat of
varnish.


Work of the Flemish

They do all their works in oil with the tip of the
pinceau, in f the manner of good
illuminators, and grind their colors very finely, protect
against dust, and often clean from their pinceau the
bits of hair which they sometimes leave there, for if these
should remain on the work it this, it would prevent neat
working, which they are very careful about. In this way their work
appears very soft, especially in small work, in which one needs to apply
more diligence because one looks at them more closely. They
usually finish the forehead, then the eyes, next the nose,
finally the mouth and the rest. But they do not proceed like some others
who fo layer two or three different flesh tones, one
yellowish & the other darker, because the colors always mix &
finally die. They simply  make their underlayer
properly.

