Art's master-piece, or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex ... by C.K.

Of Painting Garments or Drapery.

If you are to Paint Cloth or Drapery, in a broken colour, observe carefully its mixture, however you must make three degrees of that colour, one the proper colour, another more light, and the last darker, for it must be for the darkest folds, and the lightest for the lightest pleats, and that between both for the other parts.

With a worn Pencil sweeten the Colour, so that the Folds may lye hard, and if you intend to make a Fringe, Imbroidery or the like, and to them with Shell or Powdered Gold or Silver, mix your Minerals with Gum∣water, having a fine Pencil to Hatch or Imbroider the Flowers,

and touch the Fringes and other Imbroderies before you glaze, after this manner. viz. I ima∣gine the changeable Draperies Ground to be Purple, and the light Yellow, then must I take a fine Pencil dipped in Varnish, and thinly touch all the lightest parts of the Folds with Yellow Masticot, if there be occasion to repeat it, for it must be granted the Colour must be ve∣ry thin with Varnish.

When dry I must glaze all over with Lake, Smalt, or Ul∣tramarine, once or twice with Varnish, and so it must dry, and then I mix three degrees of Purple colour, of Smalt, Lake and White, and lay them on as directed, and by these measures fitting your Colours sutable to your intention, you may Paint any other coloured Drapery, which in this little

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