ABSTRACT
The knowledge of drawing and colouring is required for each, but the colours for miniature-painting being more difficult to use, certain effects are often produced at once in oil by one stroke of the pencil, which in miniature can be brought out only by care and labour. If a miniature-painter were to trust the success of his work to her, he would be nearly as mad as one, who, shaking together a great number of printing-letters, should hope, solely by that means, to become one day the author of a treatise upon philosophy or jurisprudence. The process of whitening must be done by placing it on a moderately-heated oven, or in the sun, which will warp one side. Some painters use a large scratcher; others, an instrument with a blade three or four inches long, and of a triangular shape.
