Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching to which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest and most exact grounds and rules of symetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...

Of Landskip.

In drawing Landskip with water colours ever begin with the Skie, and if there be any Sunbeams, do them first.

For the Purple Clouds, only mingle Lake and white.

The Sun-beams, Masticot and white.

Work your blew Skie with smalt only, or Ʋltra∣marine.

At your first working dead colour all the piece over, leave nothing uncovered, lay the colour smooth and even.

Work the Skie down in the Horizon fainter as you draw near the Earth, except in tempestuous skies, work your further Mountains so that they should seem to be lost in the Air.

Your first ground must be of the colour of the Earth and dark; yellowish, brown, green, the next successively as they loose in their distance must also faint and abate in their colours.

Beware of persection at a distance.

Ever place light against dark, and dark against light (that is) the only way to extend the prospect far off, is by opposing light to shadows, yet so as ever they must

loose their force and vigor in proportion as they re∣move from the Eye, and the strongest shadow ever nearest hand.

Notes

• Landskip.
• Purple Clouds.
• Yellow.
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