out high lights, cleaning up edges, and many other purposes that need not enumerated, as they will be discovered by degrees.
A short pointed brush ( Cut No. 7) is useful to take out high lights in modelling, and is to be used before the paint becomes to dry. A No. 5 or 6 will be found a convenient size. A small quill blender, No. 4 or 5, is also used for removing color. The curling petals of a flower can be beautifully delineated with such a short painting-brush, very slightly dampened with clove-oil ; and, in fact, all lost lights can be restored by the means infinitely better than by scratching out, which is not only a villainous method of removing color, but unavoidably leaves harsh, sharp edges, were as using a damp brush leaves the edges charmingly soft, and devoid of distinct lines.
A long, thin, pointed brush, called "miniature" pencil, is necessary for stippling. (Cut No.8.)
Stippling, it should be explained, is the application of color by the slightest touches from the point of a brush. It is sometimes called "point-ing." These minute touches of color must not show as spots or specks of color, but must be so blended one in the other as to form a uniform color, or graduation from one color to another. Stippling is necessary in figure work , and for re-
