TAXIDERMY AND MODELLING 



83.— Starch Paste 



Take some white starch and stir into it just enough cold 

 water to make a smooth thick paste. Add to this sufficient 

 boiling water to convert it into a stiff clear paste, stirring all 

 the time to prevent lumps forming. 



This is extremely useful for any clean paper work, 

 especially for mounting photographs, as paper can be pasted 

 upon cardboard by this medium without wrinkles. The front 

 surface of the paper having been first wetted, the back should 

 be pasted and laid evenly upon the cardboard, and the whole 

 pressed and dried between blotting-paper. 



LIST OF OIL-, WATER-, AND POWDER-COLOURS REQUIRED 

 FOR THE VARIOUS PROCESSES GIVEN IN THIS BOOK 



The following list comprises all the pigments required, 

 whether for the colouring of bills and legs of birds, soft parts of 

 animals generally, or for models of fishes, etc., invertebrates, 

 modelled foliage and flowers, diagrams, skies and backs of 

 cases, rockwork, ferns and grasses, or for actual pictorial 

 painting. 



As a general rule, it may be considered that the common 

 powder-colours {italicized) to be bought cheaply at so much 

 a pound at the oil- and colour-merchants' {not artists' oilmen) 

 are suitable only for large breadths of sky when expense is an 

 object, and for the colouring of quantities of grasses, ferns, and 

 rockwork ; they are not permanent in oil nor in water. 



The fine powder-colours — some very expensive — are to be 

 purchased only of the artists' oil- and colour-makers {i.e. Winsor 

 and Newton ; Roberson ; Lechertier, Barbe, et Cie. ; Rowney, 

 etc., who have agents in every town), and are only to be used 

 as directed for flower- and foliage-modelling. 



The artists' moist water-colours, either in pans or tubes {not 



