The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.
Blome, Richard, d. 1705.

What Shadows ought to be used to every Colour.

BUt by the way, take this for a General Rule, That every Colour is made to Shadow it self, either by taking the thinnest of the Colour, which ser∣veth for the light, and so to Shadow it with the Thick; or else by mixing thereto a little White for the light, and so Shadow it with the Colour it self: But if you would have your Shades to be darker than the Colour it self, for the deep and hard Shades, then follow these Instructions.

Lake is not to be shadowed with any other Co∣lour, it being the darkest and deepest Red; but for Variety, you may Shadow it sometimes with Vl∣tramarine, Bice, or Verditer, which will make it shew to be changeable Taffety; and by adding thereto some White, you may make several Lights.

Vermillion, is Shadowed with Lake, Spanish Brown, or Couchaneil Cakes.

Red Lead, is Shadowed with Spanish Brown.

Red-Oker, is Shadowed with Lake.

Vmber, is Shadowed with some Black mixt with the Vmber.

Spanish-Brown, is Shadowed with thin Black; but it is not of use in bright Garments.

Black, is not to be Shadowed, with any other Co∣lour, but for Lights use it thinner.

Blue Verditer, is Shadowed with Bice, Vltrama∣rine, or thin Indico.

Blue Bice, is Shadowed with Vltramarine, and in the deepest places, with Indico.

Vltra-marine is a very deep Blue, and not to be used but for Shades: There may be Lights made of it, as before shewed, by adding to it some White.

Smalt is a deep Blue, and chiefly used for Shades; but it may be Shadowed with In∣dico.

Indico is only fit to shadow other Blues with.

Masticot is to be shadowed with the thin Water of Red-Lead; and is also shadowed with Saf∣fron.

Yellow-Berries are naturally shadowed with Vmber; but for the better Beauty, it is shadowed with Red Lead, or Saffron, and in the deep places with Spanish Brown, or Lake. Sometimes for varieties sake it is shadowed with Blue Verditer, or Bice; and sometimes with thick Copper Green, or indeed with any other bright and pleasant Colour.

Cambogeum is to be shadowed with the same Colours, as the Yellow-Berries.

Saffron is shadowed with Lake, or thick Red Ink.

Yellow Oker is shadowed with burnt Oker.

Copper-Green is shadowed with Indico, and yellow Berries, or else with Sap-Green.

Spanish Green is shadowed with Copper Green.

Page  221Green Verditer, is shadowed with Copper-Green, and in the darkest places with Sap Green.

Sap-Green, is only used to shadow other Greens. There are several other Greens as hath been treated of, which I shall here omit.

Cerus, White-Lead or Flake-white, are shadowed which a small quantity of Black, mixt therewith, or a shadow is made with some Blue-Bice, and white.

Thus having given you the shadows to every Colour; in the next place, I shall proceed to such [ 10] Colours that set off best together.