The miniature painter's manual containing progressive lessons on the art of drawing and painting likenesses from life on card-board, vellum, and ivory, with concise remarks on the delineation of character and caricature (1844)
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860 · London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper · leaf 55
ut it will be hazardous to stippleupon the face in the absence of the sitter.The dress having been previously sketchedin the pencil drawing, it will only be neces-sary to pass the sketch under the ivory andobtain a light outline of the drapery with theneutral tint upon the ivory. You may nowstipple… … 43 On the cloak I should stipple the colour firstwith large free touches, and form the sha-dows afterwards with darker tints of thesame colour. The tint is formed with Prus-sian blue and lake. You must not attemptto float the colour over this mass, but lay iton in broad free stipples, like the…
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