DEAD COLOURING (n.)

COUCHE (fra.)
TERM USED AS TRANSLATIONS IN QUOTATION
ÉBAUCHER (fra.)

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Quotation

Concerning dead colouring.


The
dead colouring of a Face is to be done the roughest and boldest of all ; having drawn your Face with lake and white (as before) you must take to the said colour a little red lead, tempering it to the colour of the Cheeks, Lips, &c. but very faintly, […]. 
{
To begin to Limn.} The first colour to begin the Face with, is the red of the Cheeks and Lips, somewhat strongly the bottome of the Chin, if the party be beardless ; over under and about the Eyes you will perceive a delicate, and faint redness, and underneath the Eyes, inclining to purple colour, which in fair and beautiful Faces is usual, and must be observed ; the tip of the Ear, and the roots of the Hair are commonly of the same colour.
[…].
Note) Be not too curious in your first working, but regard a good bold following of nature, rather then smooth curiosity, the roughness of the colour, you may end at an other sitting.

Conceptual field(s)

MATERIALITE DE L’ŒUVRE → couleurs

Quotation

The Manner of Dead Colouring a Whole Figure necessary for Historical Limning.


Of
Dead Colouring there is two ways or manners […].

Conceptual field(s)

MATERIALITE DE L’ŒUVRE → couleurs