The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention — John Shaqi
The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and InventionBate, John
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The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention
Bate, John
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Take Vmber or Spanish browne, grinde it, temper it with Gumme water.
_A Blew._
Boyle Mulberries with Allum.
_An Emerauld Colour._
Take Verdigreese, and grinde it first dry, and put unto it a little of
the Gall of a neat: also of Saffron, and the juyce of Rew, of each a
little: grinde them together, and put them into a shell, and let it dry
there: when you would use it, grinde it againe with Vineger or Verjuce,
and a little neats gall dissolved in either of them. His false colour
is two parts greene, and a third ceruse: it must bee sadded with a good
greene.
_A Motlie greene._
This colour is compounded of red and greene.
_A blacke Colour._
First you must lay on a light blacke, mingled with white lead, and
afterwards when it is dry, sad it with good blacke; for sad blacke,
mixe Indie Baudias with Gumme water.
_A marble or ashe colour._
This is compounded of blacke and white.
_A russet or sad Browne._
This colour is made by compounding a little white, with a good quantity
of red.
_A browne Blew._
Take two parts of Indie Baudias, and a third of ceruse and temper them
with gumme water.
_A Brasse Colour._
This is compounded of Masticot and Vmber.
_A gold yellow for Armes._
Take Orpment, and Masticot, grinde each by themselves: but in grinding
of the Masticot, adde a little Saffron, and worke with them. Note you
may alay your Orpment with chalke, and sadde it with browne of Spain or
Oker de Luke.
_Azure._
Take of white lead foure ounces, of Indicum two ounces, put them into a
leaden pot with vinegar: boyle them well, and that which swimmes on the
top is the colour.
_A purple or violet Colour._
This is a compounded colour, and it is made either by mixing a
quantitie of Azure, and a portion of Turnsole: or else by mixing a
quantitie of cusset, and a quantitie of Azure.
_Sanguine or Blood-colour._
TThis is likewise a compounded colour, and it is made by mixing a good
quantitie of Cinaper with a little blacke.
_Orange-tawny._
This colour is compounded of a bright red, and a bright yellow.
_A Lyon-tawny._
This colour is made by mixing red lead and Masticot together.
_A Carnation, or Flesh-colour._
First you must lay on a white colour tempered with gumme-water, and
when it is drie you must go it over againe with Vermillion or lake, or
else you must temper ceruse and vermilleon together, and being dry, go
over it againe with lake or vermillion.
_A Peach Colour._
This is compounded of Ceruse and Vermillion.
_A Skie Colour._
This colour is compounded of vermilleon and azure.
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