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fine in the firft and fécond lights ; but if yotj 

 attentively" examine the deep fhades, the colour 

 is often fo obfcure that you can call it by no 

 particular name. 



There are two ways of painting in water -, one 

 by mixing white with your colours, and laying 

 on a thick body ; the other is only wafhing your 

 paper or vellum with a thin water tinctured with 

 colour. The iirft method, which may more 

 properly be called painting, is thus performed : 

 when you have a drawing finiftied in out-lines, 

 you lay in your colours mixed with white, in 

 fuch a medium, as to be about the middle co- 

 lour between your highell: lights and decpeft 

 fhadov/. You may lay in the whole piece be- 

 fore you begin to fhadow and heighten, or lay 

 in and finifh it in parts as you think befl : if you 

 do it in parts, the diftances muft be done firll -, 

 becaufe the out- lines of the parts more forwards, 

 may then be worked over the more diftant and 

 firft finifhed parts. When you have laid your 

 ground, the way is^ to fhadow firft with the fame 

 colours you have laid in, only with lefs white in 

 them, till you come to your deepeft fliadows, 



wherein 



