Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ..: to which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy . r work, yet only thofe parts where thereought to be a darker made •, and afterwards againgive fome deeper and harder touches without fniootn-uig, the which will very much fet your work off VIII. Faint fhadows, and thingsobfcure,mult beprefentedas faintly as may be, chiefly upon colour-ed paper, where the heightning helps you •, but be-ware you go not too often over your fliades .
Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ..: to which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy . r work, yet only thofe parts where thereought to be a darker made •, and afterwards againgive fome deeper and harder touches without fniootn-uig, the which will very much fet your work off VIII. Faint fhadows, and thingsobfcure,mult beprefentedas faintly as may be, chiefly upon colour-ed paper, where the heightning helps you •, but be-ware you go not too often over your fliades .leftyou fpoil them, by making them too hard and ill-favoured. , _ _. ., „„ IX. In drawing, whether it be after a Draught orthe Life-, firft obferve the thing in general, inreipectof the circumferentftroaks •, for them are they, whichbound and contain all the parts of the whole, andwithout which the particular parrs can never beperfedly diftinguifhed, nor reprefent themielves intheir being: This done, then confider in like mannerthe parts, and fuppofing the parts each to be a whole;you may come to reprefent the parts of parts, ana oythe fame means to exprefs the whole of any DraughtWhatfoever. CHAP-.
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