Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets: Or, A Collection of Above 500 Useful Receipts on a Variety of SubjectsYoung, Daniel
Science
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
Force is acquired by adding sepia to indigo, in the cold parts, and
sepia with lake to the glowing parts.
Grass is washed with a mixture of burnt sienna, indigo, and gamboge;
that in shadow has more indigo. Grass and bushes may be brought out
by a tint of gamboge; distances may be heightened by lake.
Hills, retiring.--Tint the whole with weak blue; then the nearer
ones with indigo and lake; add a little gamboge to the next, keeping
one subordinate to the other; the most distant being lost in the
aerial tints.
Land, distant.--Ultramarine and lake. Ground near is tinted with
ochre.
Road and Paths.--A mixture of lake, burnt umber, and burnt sienna.
It may be tinted with ochre.
Smoke.--Lake and indigo.
Trees, distant.--Ultramarine, with a wash of indigo, gamboge, and
burnt sienna, tinted with gray. The middle trees have a thin wash
of burnt sienna and gamboge. Nearer trees a wash of burnt sienna,
indigo, and gamboge. In the shadows more indigo is used.
Opposing masses of trees are tinted with sepia and indigo.
Windows.--Indigo and burnt umber.
559. POTICHOMANIE
This elegant accomplishment, which has become so extremely popular
and fashionable, promises not only to supercede altogether many of
those accomplishments which have hitherto absorbed the attention of
our fair countrywomen, but to rank among the fine arts.
Advantages of this Art.--It possesses many advantages: and the
process is simple and easily acquired. It is an exceedingly pleasing
and interesting employment, requiring no previous knowledge of
drawing, yet affording abundant space for the exercise of the most
exquisite taste. The time employed is richly repaid; the results
produced are of actual value; articles of ornament and domestic
utility being produced, in perfect imitation of the most beautiful
Chinese and Japanese porcelain, of Sevres and Dresden china, and of
every form that is usual in the productions of the Ceramic Art. It
furnishes an inexhaustible and inexpensive source for the production
of useful and elegant presents, which will be carefully preserved as
tokens of friendship, and as proofs of the taste and talent of the
giver.
Articles necessary in the Art of Potichomanie.--Glass vases,
(Potiches en verre,) of shapes suitable to the different orders of
Chinese, Japanese, Etruscan, and French porcelain, Alumettes, &c.;
cups, plates, &c., &c., of Sevres and Dresden design. Sheets of
coloured drawings or prints, characteristic representations of the
designs or decorations suitable to every kind of porcelain and
china. A bottle of liquid gum, and three or four hog-hair brushes.
A bottle of varnish, and very fine pointed scissors for cutting out.
An assortment of colours for the foundation, in bottles. A packet of
gold powder, and a glass vessel for diluting the colours.
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