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Directions to make the various Tints, in addition to what has been given
before.
To mix the tints as easily as possible, provide several small cups, or pans,
(of which there are great varieties made for that purpose,) at least as many
as your cakes of colour. With about six drops of clear water to each cup,
rub each of the cakes, till you have extracted out of each cake, as much
as will make it of a consistency resembling cream: if you do not make it
thick, you cannot obtain the full colour. When this is done, put up your
cakes and procure two tea-cups half full of clear water, to wash your pencils
with, and two yellow earthenware pallets, as these are made so small, one
will not be sufficient for your purpose. Next provide yourself with half
a dozen camel-hair pencils, some with short, and others with long hairs,
and prefer the use of long hair pencils in preference to the others. You
may, at first, find a difficulty in drawing stems, or any fine fibres or
veins in large leaves, with long hair pencils, except when you have the command
of your pencil; but you never will be able to do them with thick short hair
pencils. It will be necessary to have a piece of clean linen rag, to wipe
your pencil with when you wash it out; and then proceed as follows to make
the