THE RANUNCULUS.
IN drawing these beautiful flowers, it is of importance to sketch
the outlines correct, with very faint black lead lines ; then placing
a piece of clean paper over the lower part of your sketch to
preserve it, begin the upper flower by putting in the straw colour
tint round the centre, with a faint wash of garnboge, which must
be carefully softened into the white; after which, with the thinnest
wash of lake in a good sized pencil, go all round the outer part of
the flower, and soften it into the white ; then with a little
stronger tint darken round the right side; after this, begin
with a fine pointed pencil to put in the edges of the leaves
with a strong tint of lake: when you have formed all the leaves,
put in the broader touches with a short thick pencil that will
spread flat at the point ; these you must do very quick, with but
very little colour in your pencil. After this, you must touch the
edges with a fine tint of darker lake; this will make it look more
finished, and give efect: you must then touch in the little shadows
under the second row of leaves with lake, and terra de siena;
and after that, put in the purple in the eye, which will complete
this flower.
     The yellow flower on the left will require the same mode of
proceeding, only that you must wash in the yellow tint all over:
you may do this with the middle tint of yellow, then instantly with
another pencil sufficiently wet with clean water only, wash off
the yellow where it is the lightest, by which means you will have
the lightest and second tints of yellow softened into each other ;
then go round the outside of the flower with a stronger tint of
yellow, with a broad pencil : after which, add a little raw terra
de siena to the yellow, and darken all the dark side as strong