Figures are touched with lake and indigo.

Force is acquired by adding sepia to indigo, in the cold parts, and sepia with lake to the glowing parts.

Grass is washed with a mixture of burnt sienna, indigo, and gamboge; that in shadow has more indigo.  Grass and bushes may be brought out by a tint of gamboge; distances may be heightened by lake.

Hills, retiring.—­Tint the whole with weak blue; then the nearer ones with indigo and lake; add a little gamboge to the next, keeping one subordinate to the other; the most distant being lost in the aerial tints.

Land, distant.—­Ultramarine and lake.  Ground near is tinted with ochre.

Road and Paths.—­A mixture of lake, burnt umber, and burnt sienna.  It may be tinted with ochre.

Smoke.—­Lake and indigo.

Trees, distant.—­Ultramarine, with a wash of indigo, gamboge, and burnt sienna, tinted with gray.  The middle trees have a thin wash of burnt sienna and gamboge.  Nearer trees a wash of burnt sienna, indigo, and gamboge.  In the shadows more indigo is used.

Opposing masses of trees are tinted with sepia and indigo.

Windows.—­Indigo and burnt umber.

559.  Potichomanie

This elegant accomplishment, which has become so extremely popular and fashionable, promises not only to supercede altogether many of those accomplishments which have hitherto absorbed the attention of our fair countrywomen, but to rank among the fine arts.

Advantages of this Art.—­It possesses many advantages:  and the process is simple and easily acquired.  It is an exceedingly pleasing and interesting employment, requiring no previous knowledge of drawing, yet affording abundant space for the exercise of the most exquisite taste.  The time employed is richly repaid; the results produced are of actual value; articles of ornament and domestic utility being produced, in perfect imitation of the most beautiful Chinese and Japanese porcelain, of Sevres and Dresden china, and of every form that is usual in the productions of the Ceramic Art.  It furnishes an inexhaustible and inexpensive source for the production of useful and elegant presents, which will be carefully preserved as tokens of friendship, and as proofs of the taste and talent of the giver.

Articles necessary in the Art of Potichomanie.—­Glass vases, (Potiches en verre,) of shapes suitable to the different orders of Chinese, Japanese, Etruscan, and French porcelain, Alumettes, &c.; cups, plates, &c., &c., of Sevres and Dresden design.  Sheets of coloured drawings or prints, characteristic representations of the designs or decorations suitable to every kind of porcelain and china.  A bottle of liquid gum, and three or four hog-hair brushes.  A bottle of varnish, and very fine pointed scissors for cutting out.  An assortment of colours for the foundation, in bottles.  A packet of gold powder, and a glass vessel for diluting the colours.