The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colours more exactlie then heretofore taught and enlarged with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. Published, for the behoofe of all young gentlemen, or any els that are desirous for to become practicioners in this excellent, and most ingenious art, by H. Pecham., gent.

The second practise. CHAP. 6.

YOu shall, next after your hand is grown ready in the aforesaid pro∣portions, practise to draw smal and easie things, comming as neer your former examples as may be, by your conceipt only: as a cherry with the leafe, the shaft of a steeple, a single or canker Rose, &c. wherin you shall begin to take some delight, and find no great difficulty.

But in drawing these and whatsoeuer els, I must not forget to tell you; that you must be perfect and quick in the generall or outward lines, and giue them a rea∣sonable

good proportion, ere you fall to shadowing or tricking your work within: wherfore I would haue you make an essay 6 or 7 times at the least for the ge∣nerall proportion only: if at the first it be not to your mind, as for exāple in drawing of a rose, be sure that the compasse of it be not faulty, ere you cast out the leaues by 5 equal lines, or in making a womans ruffe, that you skore it out first narrow in the neck, then wi∣der from the cheekes, and narrow againe vnder the chin very truly, ere you add the lace or seting, al which is don with I line which I cal the general or extream. For those sorms that are mixed & vncertain, & where your circle and square cā do you no good (being left only to your Idea) as in a Lion, a Horse or such like: you must work altogither by your own iudgement, & win the proportion by dailie practise, which wil seem very harsh & strange vnto you at the first, but to help your self herein you shall do thus: hauing the generall notion or shape of the thing in your mind you mean to draw (which I doubt not but you may conceiue and remember as wel as the best painter in the world though not expresse according to the rules of art) draw it with your lead or coale after your own fashiō * 1.1 though neuer so badly, & laie it from you for a day: the next daie peruse it well, bethinke your selfe where you haue erred, and mend it according to that Idea you carrie in your mind, in the generall propor∣tion: when you haue thus done, laie it by again til the next daie, & so cōtinue for 5 or 6 daies together, cor∣recting by degrees the other parts euen to smal vains as your discretiō wil serue you, this may you do with 40 papers at once, of seuerall things, hauing done

what you can (though not to your liking) confer it by the like, some excellent print or patterne of the same, vsing no rule or compasse at all but your own iudge∣ment in mending euery fault lightly, and with a quick hand, giuing euery place his due; whereby you shall of all sides meet with your errors and find an incre∣dible furtherance to your practise: though hereunto is required I must confesse, a strong imagination and a good memory, which are the midwiues to this arte and practise as in all things els the nurse that bringes it to the ful growth and perfection.

Notes

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  How to helpe you in your Idea.