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Title:  The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.
Author: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
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little Pinke, and where you will haue the shaddow darke, vse Vmber, where the light, Masticot.For Siluer, take Char-coale blacke and white Lead; where you will haue it darke, vse more Char-coale, and for the light, giue it a bold and suddaine stroke with your white. And thus you make your Pearle. Note, that you must grind your Sea-coale and Char-coale (of a sallow, if you can get it) in faire water first, and when it is dry, grind it in Oyle.For Skie and Landscape.For a Sky or Landscaps, that seeme a great way off, take Oyle Smalt, or Bice if you will, and with Linseed Oyle onely temper it on your pallet (for in grinding Smalt or Bice, they vtterly lose their colour) with white Lead, and where it looketh redde as the morning, vse Lake, &c.Of Wood colours, Barkes of Trees, &c.Your Wood colours are compounded either of Vm∣ber and White, Char-coale and White, Sea-coale and White, Vmber blacke and white, or with some greene added. Sometime adde a little Lake or Vermilion.Of sundry Greenes in Oyle.For a deepe and sad Greene, as in the in-most leaues of trees, mingle Indico and Pinke.For a light Greene, Pinke and Masticot: for a middle and Grasse-greene, Verdigreace and Pinke.Remember euer to lay on your Yellowes, Blewes, Reds, and Greenes, vpon a white ground which giueth them their life.To make cleane your Pencils, rub Soape hard into them, and lay them by a while, after wash them in warme water.To make cleane your grinding stone and Mullar, rub it ouer with crums of bread.0