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voriges Blattnaechstes Blatt
 
the middle vein right through the foliage, which is painted light red, and with the dark green, also with a brush, the middle vein right through the green or slate green, as it is shown here. §


Then take again the dark red and mix it thinner in the hand or in a shell with pure, thin gum water, so that it is really thinner, as shown here: §

Then take the same thin dark red for one side, namely the turnover of the leaf, or of the reverse, as it is shown here. Then take dark green and mix it thinner with pure spring water in the hand, or in whatever you wish, so that then it is really thinner, as it is shown here: §

Then paint in the green with a brush, as it is shown here.


Then take again dark red and temper it with gum water, not too strong

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Source: Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, The Göttingen Model Book. Columbia 2nd ed. 1978