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Velvets and blacks

One needs to make the middle main layer very
d dark, & the folds & highlights of the same
very bright with white, & on the edge of its light, you make a white
line. For blue & green velvets, you highlight
touch with shading of peach pit black which is very
black. For lake, black of charbon de pierre which
makes a reddish black on lake for velvets. The
common charcoal makes a whitish black.
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Armory

Soft wood charcoal appears bluish. It is good for making
armory.


Stil de grain yellow

Is made with broom flower boiled well in
water, putting in enough alum, then ceruse.


Red copper

Some with chalk, but the best has its body with ceruse
& brazilwood dye
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Flanders blue

In the month of May, one puts the cow
dung to putrefy under horse dung. Then one mixes
with floree.


Snow-covered landscapes

Only three colors are used for it: white, black &
bistre.


Softening

If you have worked & made your ground layer with some
desiccative color, such as minium & similar, finish softening
while the work is fresh, for if you were to wait until the next
day, it would be dry & you would not be able to finish it
neatly.

