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finally in a pitcher full of clean water, shaking them well to the bottom, then shaking the water out of the brushes, draw them to a point between [[strikethrough]] your [[/strikethrough]] the lips.

To clean a brush of Bopal or other varnish, rinse with spirits of turpentine, then work some burning fluid or linseed oil well through it, if it may be easily washed with soap + water--otherwise it will be sticky + disagreable. My turpentine rinser holds a quart [[strikethrough]] of the spirit [[/strikethrough]] a lefser cup, also oftin, hangs within 1 1/4 inch below the upper edge--This is perforated with numerous holes, stamped downwards, + the burs beneath smoothly filed off, that they may not cut the brushes,

A wire goes across near the middle of the [[strikethrough]] cup [[/strikethrough]] upper cup, to scrape the brushes on, after rubbing them in the spirits of turpentine, which must always be full enough to cover the concave bottom of the inner cup. The dirty paint falls to the bottom--and a rinser of this size will answer a long time without requiring to be cleaned + refilled. The small ones [[strikethrough]] that are generally used [[/strikethrough]] get foul too soon. Many artists imagine that spirits of turpentine injures the texture of brushes + therefore only clean them with poppy oil--this is a troublesome, slovenly + expensive mthod. Besides, the turpentine in the rinsing cup soon becomes mixed with [[strikethrough]] oil  [[/strikethrough]] which separates from the paints.

Mullers and Glafs slabs.

It is a great economy of time, + essential is the purity of some colours, to have several glasses + mullers--one for white, never to be used for any other pigment; another for blue; another for yellow; [[strikethrough]] another [[/strikethrough]] for reds; and one for browns + black.

Hair

The best method of producing softness in representing hair. That is contiguous to, or in small quantities on, flesh, is to scumble over the  spot [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] where the hair is to be painted, with the colour of the shadow which the hair would make on the flesh. On this preparation the hair being delicatel painted appear of a thinner texture, + may be rendered more dense at pleasure. Dark hair is agreably painted with black + roman red--the

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leave the "+"'s alone, we are to type what we see, and there is no math on these sheets. These pages will take years to be finished with this kind of ridiculous nit-pickiness that appear nowhere in the instructions so knock it off.