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importance that he should possess the best & simplest means of imitating them. Although this may be done in a variety of ways, it is the regular of much experience that the following method is recommended.
 The tints which I call Mezzo-tints constitue the basis of Flesh-colours. Its darkest or full ting, (midway between raw umber & Indian Red), serving for the darkest shadowns, and enriched when necessary with Lake. Lightened with the addition of white, or the carnation tints. The Mezzo-tints with white make delicate transition tints, between the warm lights and the gray tings. The Mezzo-tints are agreably modified with the green tints composed of Blue or Black, with Maples yellow & white.

Vandycke Red and Violet de Mars.
 Indian Red and a small quantity of Ultramarine produce a colour exactly like Vandycke Red - a larger addition of Ultramarine imitates teh Violet de Mars, a costly pigment, which ground iwth oil runs on the Palette unless mixed with Alumine or Magnesia. Also, though in a less degree is the case with Vandycke Red.
 Violet de Mars, (and the imitation of it by Ultramarine & chinak Vermilion), which is purplish Red, when mixed with white, produce tints that range from a cool & bluish light hue to warm purplish Red. When used pure to scrumble over shadowy parts of flesh, its effect is to warm them, yet retiringly; but in the lighter tints with white the blue in it so much predominated that it is an excellent colour to paint with ball of the eye, and to imitate the pearly appearnce of the blue veins about the temples & eyes.
 In painting a [[florid?]] complexion, after the shadows have been fully painted a little lighter & cooler than nature, an extremely thin & filmy application of the Violet de Mars or Ivory black + Lake may be delicately scumbled among the shawoy half-tints, producing a somewhat purplish hue, which , if too strong, can afterwards be modified by the gray or greenish tints, previous to application of the lights in which the orange or Carnation hues prevails. 
 It is an advantageous circumstance that the Mezzo-tint, made with this