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Ladies' manual of art, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art : embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel, crayon, drawing, taxidermy, etc (1887)

Philadelphia : American Mutual Library Association · leaf 136

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ackground, while the local tint is drying. Retouching. When the first painting has lost nearly all its moisture, return to it again ; work the shadows by stippling some brown No 17, mixed with sepia, yellow ochre, light grey, and a touch of blue-green for the transparent parts. Where the flesh is… … is enough to indicate the smaller veins.

Decorative arts · Art · Artists' materials · Taxidermy

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