620

On the preparation and use of colours.

You can make a fine ochre by the same method as you use to make white.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

619 * 621

VII * X

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

. . .

600

Of painting battle pieces.

601,

602,

603

Of depicting night-scenes.

604

Of depicting a tempest.

605,

606

Of representing the deluge.

607,

608,

609

Of depicting natural phenomena.

610,

611

Of chalk and paper.

612,

613,

614,

615,

616,

617

On the preparation and use of colours.

618,

619,

620,

621,

622,

623,

624,

625,

626,

627

Of preparing the panel.

628

The preparation of oils.

629,

630,

631,

632,

633,

634

On varnishes [or powders].

635,

636,

637

On chemical materials.

638,

639,

640

. . .