1--By the Fine Arts are generally meant painting, sculpture, and architecture, with an extension of the signification to engraving, moulding, and other ways for making copies of works of art.

5--When a drawing is to be shaded in pencil, the sketch or outline had better be done with a rather soft pencil, in light lines, removing errors with indian rubber or a crumb of bread.

1-- Stumping is used in figure drawing, and is a quick and effective method. Get the outline correctly on crayon paper, reduce soft black chalk (stumping chalk) to a fine powder, and roll the point of a stump in it, so as to take up a little, with this get in the shadows, tenderly and evenly, and finish them with such touches of any of the black chalks as may be necessary to give character, sharpness, and depths; use white chalk for the lights. To attain success in this mode of drawing, as in almost every other, requires considerable practice.
A piece of soft calico, or the tip of the finger, may be used to soften the stumping.
Stumping is particularly suitable for figures of a large size; for these, soft leather stumps answer best; the hard stumps, which are made of cork, &c are for small drawings.

6--Melt some bees wax and a small quantity of lard or butter together, and soak No. 2 Conte in the liquor, till the crayon has thoroughly imbibed it. Drawings made with this crayon will scarcely rub at all.

1--During the present Century Water Colours have risen to an importance, of which previously they had not been deemed capable; the persevering exertions of Colour-makers to improve the colours, and of Artists to develope their full capabilities, have resultede in the creation of a new art...
2--The advantages possessed by water colours are, a purity and lightness in the skies and distances,...they are free from the glossiness so unpleasant in oil pictures; they answer for framing as well, while, by their peculiar capability of being kept in a portfolio, they can lie in a small space secure from injury and easy of removal; the work dries rapidly; the materials are very portable...Their range of usefulness is therefore very great...

BLUE VERDITER--A colour of little use; is a purple bright blue, not to be depended on for permanency; not much power.

RED LEAD--A bright scarlet, not permanent, considerable body, washes badly. This colour is not safe to use, as it is liable to change into a dull leaden brown: is a preparation of red oxide of lead.

As a picture will sometimes take a considerable time to execute, during which it is liable to dust, which of course would injure the colours, care should be taken to guard against the evil as much as possible; besides keeping it covered, it should be wiped with a clean soft cloth at the commencement of each sitting.

The principles and practice which have been explained, are calculated to develope the full powers of water colours; with the information which has been given respecting the properties of each colour, the student cannot find any difficulty in modifying them, when only a slight sketch, or a temporary object is desired.

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