The art of painting wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting, according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours, not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work ... / composed by John Smith, philomath.

CHAP. XV. How to lay on Smalt, the only Colour that requires strewing.

IF you make the Margin of your Dial Blew with strowing Smalt, it must be done after the Figures are guilt; thus:

Take White Lead stiffly tempered (if with fat Oyl it will be much the better) and therewith colour over your whole Margin, repairing there∣in the Figures as you come to them; when you have thus done your Mar∣gin all over with thick colour, take your Smalt, and with a Goose-quill-feather cover all your Margin with it, and with a piece of Cotton dab it down close that it may well take upon the ground laid under it; and

when you imagine the ground to be throughly dry, then wipe off the loose colour with a feather, and blow the remainder of it off with a pair of Bellows, so is your work finished. And thus you have a Method for Co∣louring any thing else with this Co∣lour besides the Margins of Sun-Dials.