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is better to err on this side, and keep the shades faint. When a bungling
manner is once contracted, it will be more difficult to correct it, than
to produce an improvement upon a soft method.
PLATE II.
The two upper sprigs are young rose leaves, representing the under sides,
which are always of a bluer green amongst all leaves, or inclined to a pea
green. These are laid in with a faint tint, made of gamboge and Prussian
blue. The second tint is a repetition of the first, but a very little stronger.
The third is made still stronger, with more blue and yellow: for a finish,
cut up the veins with the last tint, but a little stronger still.
The two under sprigs are the same leaves as above, representing their fronts.
The first tint of these is gamboge and Prussian blue. You will do well in
all cases, as I observed before, to compare your tint, and see that it is
exactly the same as the pattern. It is as easy to imitate the same tint,
as to make any other. The second tint is made by repeating the first, when
dry; for, without adding any more colour, you will find the same tint you
laid the leaves in first, will, by touching upon that, make it so much darker,
as to appear to have been touched with a darker tint. In the third tint,
take a little sap green, with the gamboge and blue, and add a little more
sap green, mixed with more blue, for the last darkest touches, to cut up
the veins with.