031v - - - - - Painter
Scribes achieve darkening of lake & other colors for garments with egg yolk, but this is a delusion and does not last.
Others glaze rouges de mine & others which are not beautiful in oil Musing glair of the egg, and it appears to be done in oil. But humidity corrupts all this.
Broisses
Take those that have been used a little by white—limers, for the harshness of the quick—lime & use make them easier to handle.
Painting after nature
One ought not to undertake to work on it in overcast weather because you would make your flesh tones browner than they ought to be.
Paindre d’aprest
For blue, they take the roughest azure d’email & grind it on shale, & mix in two or three rosary beads’ worth of roquaille or more, according to the quantity of the work. And having done their drawing with noir d’escaille (which is painted towards the light with the piece of glass upright), they lay all their pieces on white paper when for knowing by the whiteness of the paper the lighting of their histories and as set down all colors which are of one kind all in one go. Then they heat it up.