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

Of Colours useful in Limning or Painting, and other matters.

The next thing to be consi∣dered, the Cloth primed, and the Drawing put on, is the pre∣paring your Colours, which in Oil Painting must be with Lin∣seed Oil, unless for Linnen,

and then Walnut Oil is a great deal better, for it will not turn yellow as the other in time will, when mixed with curious white.

You must Grind your Colours on a Stone with a Muller, till they are as fine as Butter, &c. The Colours proper to be used in Limning are,

The Blacks; Sea-cole black, Ivory black, Lamp black, and Earth of Collen; the White, White Lead; the Green; Ter∣ravet, Verditer and Verdi∣greace; the Yellow, Spruce Oaker, Pink or Piment, and Masticot; the Blues, Smalt, Biss, Indico, and Ultramarine; the Reds, Red-Lead, Vermil∣lion, Lake, Indian-red, and Ornatto; the colours indisse∣rent are Umber, Spanish∣brown, burnt Spruce.

These are the chief to be laid in Oil, but Ivory, Spruce-Oaker

and Umber must be burnt before they are ground; and as for Masticot, Ultrama∣rine, Masticot, Vermillion, Smalt and Orpiment, you may temper them on your Pallate without grinding, though grind∣ing is better, because it mixes them the better with the Oil, and makes them dilate and spread more easily: And what of these are to be burnt, per∣form it in a Crucible, taking care they be not overburnt, to lose their Tincture.

Take care in the next place to get good Pencils of all sizes, proportionable to your Work, a Palate or Board to lay Colours •••• whilst you are using them, •••• Easle to place your Cloth up∣on or against, and a straining Frame, to which it must be nail∣ed, a Mollstick or Stay, made of Brasil, or some ponderous

Wood, not subject to bend, a∣bout a yard long, at one end tye a ball of ravelled Cotton, with a Leather over it, so that with your Left-hand, holding it against the Work, you may support your right Arm with it, whilst you are Working.