Popular Recreation: Colouring Portraits...for removing dust or superfluous colour, will cost you from twopence to fourpence. The latter brush should be chosen with the hair much longer and spreading more than those of the smaller brushes.
…for removing dust or superfluous colour, will cost you from twopence to fourpence. The latter brush should be chosen with the hair much longer and spreading more than those of the smaller brushes. If in addition to these brushes the colourist should prefer others to save repeated cleansing and avoid soiling the purity of one colour by mixing it with another, he can buy a dozen or two of the camel-hair crowquill brushes at about eightpence per dozen.
The brushes are prepared for use by first rinsing them thoroughly in a little clean cold water, bringing them to a point between the lips, and putting them aside out of the dust to dry. The diagrams on page 17 will help the reader to understand the kind of brushes he will require. Figs. 1, 2, and 3 show the forms of the sable brushes, one of which (Fig. 3) is flat, which we prefer, mounted in the tin, tot he quill, and Fig. 4 is the camel-hair “duster.” The other brushes will resemble the round sables, only the camel-hair will be softer, and their points less firm and elastic.
In addition to the duster, the colourist will require an india-rubber bottle or ball, with a…
Extract from The Popular Recreator, Topic: Colouring Portraits, section i, page 18.