DEEPEN (TO) (v.)

DIEPEN (nld.) · TIEFEN (deu.) · VERDIEPEN (nld.)
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DIEPEN (nld.)

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Having made your hand fit and ready in generall proportion, learn to give all bodies their true shadows according to their eminence and concavity, and to heighthen or deepen, as your body appeareth nearer or farther from the light ; which is a matter of great judgment, and indeed the soul (as I may say) of a picture.

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CONCEPTION DE LA PEINTURE → lumière

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After you have made the white of the Eyes, and proportion of the Nose, &c. lay your Carnation or Flesh colour over the Face, casting in here and there some shadowes, which work in with the flesh colour by degrees. Your flesh-colour is commonly compounded of white lead, lake, and vermilion ; but you may heighthen or deepen it at your pleasure.

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CONCEPTION DE LA PEINTURE → couleur

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Some further Directions how to temper and mingle your Colours by way of Composition or Temperature, to make all these following Colours, and also the manner how to Deepen or Shadow them.


For Carnatian temper Lake and White, and deepen it or shadow it with Lake.
For a Violet temper fine
Dutch Bice and Lake, and deepen it with Indigo.
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MATERIALITE DE L’ŒUVRE → couleurs