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The Party to be drawn in this second Sitting, must take the place and posture as before, and now you must take a more curious survey of the Lines and Features, and as you drew them over roughly before, now is the proper time to sweeten them with the same Colours, by
Working and Drawing them one into another, so that no rough edge or lump of Colour may appear, and you must do this with a Pencil sharper than the former, to render the sha∣dow smooth and soft.
This done, proceed to the Back-side of your Picture, and if there be a Curtain required, and it be supposed of Blue Sat∣ten, then temper Bice with your Oil, and draw the out-lines of the Curtain, as also your Picture, and lay it over very thin and airy with a large Pencil, that it may be the whole ground, in∣tended to be done with Blue, and then lay it over again with a substantial Body, with the same colour, doing it swiftly that no part of the Colour may dry before it be all finished, and in the same manner you may lay the backside with any colour.
This done, lay your Linnen of a fair white, and your Dra∣pery flat, with the Colour you intend it, then view the Face again well, noting what sha∣dows are too light or too deep, and labour to reduce the several shadows to their perfection, then draw the Lines out of the Eye-lids, and Shadow the en∣trance into the Ears, the deep∣ness of the Eye-brows, and all the most material marks and notes in the Face, do this with a curious sharp Pencil, then heighten the Hair, deepening it as it appears in the Life, cast∣ing over the ground some loose Hairs, which will not only make it look airy, but seem as if the Picture stood a distance from the Curtain.
In shadowing the Lines, which must be done curiously, use black, white, and a little
blue, deepen the black with Ivory-black, and put to it a little quantity of Indico or Lake, and so the second Operation is finished.