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the glare of White, & prepare every part for future operation & Study. As soon as this is dried, then another thin tinge of colour should be applied to improve the shadows, demi-tints & lights, previously to repeating them with a fuller body of Colour.
The shadows glazed on a White ground could seldom be effected correctly in tone or colour, without the assistance of some opake colour, as Naples yellow. [[strikethrough]] or white [[/strikethrough]]. The shadows being early & correctly laid in, would still be of their substance, compared with the oft repealed masses of paint which would be found necessary in moulding out & giving relief to the features, with the further aid of renewed glazings & retouches to the shadows. These ultimate glazings, therefore, have probably deceived the amateur Investigator & Picture cleaner, & led them to suppose that they were thus made by thick glazings in the beginning which, had they tried it, would have been found to be impossible even with the most experienced eye.

Elementary Tints.
The error which Bouvier, in his Manual, has committed, and which is copied in the American Hand book, is this -- That for the information of the young + inexperienced Artist he teaches him how to [[strikethrough]] [[analyze?]] [[/strikethrough]] compound and arrange a vast variety of tints for the imitation of every variety of complexion -- no less than 66 tints on the Palette at once, besides the original Colours.; and then remarks that experience will afterwards enable him to dispense with all but a few elementary ones, out of which he may compose with his brush, whatever he may want. The young painter sees but few tints in the real head before him, & is led astray by the use of tints which he cannot yet understand, however useful some of them may be to him at a future time. It is therefore desirable to lead him through a more obvious effects of Nature, by a process which will afterwards admit of variations & refinements, such as a cultivated eye may require. 
The general hue of Flesh is never [[strikethrough]] seldom [[/strikethrough]] of a decided or positive colour; but rather a soft compound of many intermingling tints. Although the Painter