Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets: Or, A Collection of Above 500 Useful Receipts on a Variety of SubjectsYoung, Daniel
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Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets: Or, A Collection of Above 500 Useful Receipts on a Variety of Subjects
Young, Daniel
Formulas, recipes, etc.; Science -- Methodology
Anemones.--A thin wash of gamboge shaded with bistre; or carmine and
sap-green blended together. The stripes carmine, shaded with the
same; indigo in the darkest parts, or stipple with it.
Leaves.--Sap-green, shaded with indigo and French berries; the stalk
brown.
Honeysuckles.--Inside of the petals, white shaded with sap-green, or
gamboge and bistre.
The insides are to be shown by curling the leaves back at the ends,
or by splitting them.
The outsides, a thin wash of carmine and lake mixed, shaded with
carmine--indigo for the darkest shades.
Stalks.--Sap-green and carmine.
Leaves.--Sap-green, shaded with indigo and French berries.
Roses.--A light tint of pure carmine, over which another equally
light of Peruvian blue; proceed with the darker shades of carmine of
the best sort. In the darkest part of the flower add a little indigo
to give a roundness. If the seeds are seen lay on gamboge, shaded
with gall-stone.
Leaves.--Upper side, sap-green, shaded with indigo and French
berries mixed; under-side, white indigo and sap-green mixed, shaded
with the same.
Stalks.--Sap-green and carmine, shaded with indigo.
Rose-buds.--A pale wash of carmine, shaded with a stronger wash of
the same.
Stalks and leaves, sap-green with a slight wash of carmine.
557. BIRDS IN WATER-COLOURS
Eagles.--black and brown, shaded with indigo; feathers heightened by
brown ochre and white; beak and claws saffron, shaded with bistre;
eyes vermilion, heightened with masticot or saffron, shaded with
vermilion.
Geese.--Ceruse shaded with black; legs, black; bill, red.
Owls.--Ochre mixed with white, in different shades; legs, yellow
ochre.
Pheasants.--White and black mixed; legs, Dutch pink, shaded with
black.
Swans.--White shaded with black; the legs and bills black; eyes
yellow; a ball in the midst.
Turkeys.--Black, black and white mixed, shaded off to a white
underneath; sprinkled and shaded with black.
558. LANDSCAPES IN WATER-COLOURS
Sketch the outlines faintly with a black-lead pencil. Then colour.
Colours.--The most useful are: lake, burnt ochre, gamboge, indigo,
light red, sepia, Prussian blue, sienna, and burnt umber.
The gray colour is made of burnt umber, indigo, and lake; each
rubbed separately in a saucer, and then mixed in a fourth saucer as
to produce the exact colour--a warm gray. This is thinned for the
light tints, as sky and distances. Deeper is to be used for the
shadows and near parts, softening with water till the exact effect
is produced.
Buildings are sometimes tinted with a mixture of lake and gamboge.
Burnt ochre is also used. The shadows have an excess of lake.
Breadths of Light are obtained by destroying the scattered lights
with grays.
Clouds are produced by a thin mixture of indigo and lake. They
should be tinted with sepia. The lower or horizontal clouds are
tinged with ultramarine.
Figures are touched with lake and indigo.
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