A book of dravving, limning, vvashing or colouring of maps and prints: and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers. Or, The young-mans time well spent. In which, he hath the ground-work to make him fit for doing anything by hand, when he is able to draw well. By the use of this work, you may draw all parts of a man, leggs, armes, hands and feet, severally, and together. And directions for birds, beasts, landskips, ships, and the like. Moreover, you may learn by this tract, to make all sorts of colours; and to grinde and lay them: and to make colours out of colours: and to make gold and silver to write with. How also to diaper and shadow things, and to heighthen them, to stand off: to deepen them, and make them glitter. In this book you have the necessary instruments for drawing, and the use of them, and how to make artificiall pastels to draw withall. Very usefull for all handicrafts, and ingenuous gentlemen and youths. By hammer and hand all arts doe stand.

How to take the perfect Draft of any picture.

TAke a sheet of the finest white paper you can get, Venice paper is the best, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it all over with cleane linsed oyle on one side of the paper, then wipe the oyle off from the paper as clean as you can, then let the paper stand and dry, other∣wise it will spoyl a printed picture, by the soaking thorow of the oyle; having thus prepared your paper, lay it on any printed or painted picture, and you may see per∣fectly thorow and so with black lead pen, you may draw it over with ease: after you have thus drawne the picture on the oyled paper, put it upon a sheet of cleane white paper, and with a little sticke pointed, or which is better 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a feather, taken out of a Swallows wing, draw over your stroakes which you drew upon the oyled paper, and so you shall have the same very prettily and neatly, and exactly drawne upon the white paper which you may set out with colours at your own pleasure.

Another way.

HAving drawn the Picture, take the oyled paper, and put it upon a sheet of clean white paper, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 over the drawing with a pen, then from the clean sheet that was pricked, pownse 〈◊〉〈◊〉 upon another, that it take some small coal, powder it fine, and wrap it in a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of some fine linnen, and binde it up therein loosly, and clap it lightly over all the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 line by little and little, and afterwards draw it over againe by little and little, and afterwards draw it over againe with a pen or pen∣sell, or what you please.

Another way.

TAke a sheet of fine white paper, and rub it all over on one side with black-lead, or else with vermilion tempered with a little fresh butter, then lay this coloured side upon a sheet of white paper, then lay the picture you would copy out upon the other side of the coloured paper, and with a small pointed sticke, or with a Swal∣lows quill goe over all the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of your picture, and then you shall have your stroakes very prettily drawn on the white paper.

Another way.

TAke a piece of white Lanthorne horne, and lay it upon your picture, then with a hard nipt pen made with a Ravens quill draw the stroake of your picture upon the horne, and when it is dry, breath upon the horne twice or thrice, and presse it hard upon a peice of white paper a little wetted, and the picture you drew upon the horn, will stick fast upon the paper.

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Another way.

TAke 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sheet of white paper, rub it all over with fresh butter, and dry it in by 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fire; then rub one side of it all over with lamp-black or lake, or any other co∣lour sinely ground: lay this paper upon a sheet of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 paper with the coloured sid downwards, and upon it lay the picture you would copy out, and trace the stroak over with a fether of a Swallows wing, and you shall have your desire.

Another way.

TAke some lake, and grinde it fine, and temper it with lin-seed oyle, and after∣wards with a pen draw with this mixture, instead of inke, all the out-stroake of any paper picture, also the musles, then wet the contrary side of the picture, and presse it hard upon a sheet of cleane white paper, and it will leave behind it all 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 of the said picture that you drew over it.

Another way.

TAke Printers blacke, grinde it fine, and temper it with faire water, and with a pen dipt therein draw over the master stroakes, and out-lines of the musles, wet then a faire paper with a spunge, or other thing, and clap the paper upon it, pressing it very hard thereupon, and you shall finde the stroakes you drew left upon the faire paper.

Another most easie way.

LAy a paper print upon a bright glasse window, or paper window that is oyled with the back-side of the print upon the window, then lay a clean paper upon the print, and draw the out-stroaks upon the paper, which may visibly see you, it being sett up against the light, and if you wil shadow it siner you may.