The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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which the writing is ornamented these passages must have been  
written in Leonardo's youth.]  
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20.  
You can make a fine ochre by the same method as you use to make  
white.  
6
21.  
A FINE YELLOW.  
Dissolve realgar with one part of orpiment, with aqua fortis.  
WHITE.  
Put the white into an earthen pot, and lay it no thicker than a  
string, and let it stand in the sun undisturbed for 2 days; and in  
the morning when the sun has dried off the night dews.  
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22.  
To make reddish black for flesh tints take red rock crystals from  
Rocca Nova or garnets and mix them a little; again armenian bole is  
good in part.  
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