[Illustration: To beautify the place of My Sanctuary.] [Sidenote: Materials.] The following materials are required:-- [Sidenote: Zinc.] Zinc, in strips, average price 10_d._ per square foot. [Sidenote: Oil paints, &c.] Oil-paints, in tubes. Vermilion, 6_d._ } Crimson lake, 4_d._ } these may be mixed. French ultramarine, 1_s._ Blue black, 4_d._ Emerald green, 4_d._ Ivory white, 4_d._ This cream-coloured white has the richest and best effect. 1 Bottle of pale drying oil, 6_d._ 1 Bottle of spirits of turpentine, 6_d._ [Sidenote: Brushes.] Brushes--Red sable, various sizes, from 4_d._ to 1_s._ 2_d._ each. [Sidenote: Palette, &c.] A wooden palette, 1_s._ 6_d._ A palette-knife, 1_s._ 6_d._ Tailor's chalk, or "pipe-clay," 2_d._ A carpenter's 2-foot rule, 1_s._ or 1_s._ 6_d._ [Sidenote: Zinc.] In churches where the walls are damp, or otherwise unsuited for receiving colour, it is found that zinc is an excellent material for illuminating texts from Holy Scripture, to be fixed to the wall when completed. This method is much less expensive than painting in fresco. [Sidenote: Foundation Coat of Paint.] Zinc can be procured of _any ordinary plumber_, at an average price of 10_d._ per square foot; it requires no particular preparation for illuminating, excepting a foundation-colour (or ground), which can be laid on by any house-painter far better than by the amateur. This should be done at the workshop, as the smell of so large a body of paint would be very injurious to those unaccustomed to it. [Sidenote: Tints to match or contrast.] The foundation-colour should either match the tint of the wall to which the scroll will be affixed, or present a decided contrast. Care must be taken in matching the colour of a plastered wall, that the paint should be _lighter_ in tint, as it has a tendency to darken, while the plaster is likely to become rather lighter, especially in new buildings. Foundation-colours, &c. suitable to particular seasons of the Church will be enumerated at the end of this article.