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- Browns And The Cold Semi-neutral Grays Marrone Is Practically To
- Also Called Scarlet Chrome Is A Bright Chromate Of Lead Of An
- Black Chalk
- Composition Chemical Analysis Has Shown Several Of The Blues To Be
- Burnt Verdigris
- Belong The Dutch And Flemish Schools; The Sensible Which Aims At
- Less Known As English Red Prussian Red And Scarlet Ochre True
- Olive In Dark Green; Russet And Citrine In Dark Orange The
- Known Likewise As Raw Sienna Earth Terra Di Sienna &c Is A
- Root Of The Anchusa Tinctoria Commonly Known As Alkanet A Plant

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- Distilled Verdigris Or More Properly Refined Verdigris The Best Is
- Sometimes Called China Or Chinese Ink Is Chiefly Brought From
- Only That Of Extreme Light Objects Opaque It Follows That White Is To
- These Are False Appellations Of A White Lead Called Also French
- Of These There Are Three Tints Deep A So-called Pale And Lemon
- Sometimes Designated Drop Gum And Variously Written Gamboge
- The Secondary Orange And Its Near Relatives Scarlet &c; And With
- Than Themselves; And Into Painters Whose Motto Is Vita Brevis Est Ars
- The Third And Last Of The Primary Or Simple Colours Is Blue Which
- Besides The Preceding There Is A Basic Prussian Blue Formed By

To Keep In Mind--the Glow Of Sunshine And The Cool Of Shade

It is a fault of even some of our best colourists, as evinced by their
pictures, to be too fond of black upon their palettes, and thence to
infuse it needlessly into their tints and colours. With such it is a
taste acquired from the study of old pictures; but in nature hardly any
object above ground is black, or in daylight is rendered neutral
thereby. Black, therefore, should be reserved for a local colour, or
employed only in the under-painting properly called grounding and dead
colouring. As a local colour, black has the effect of connecting or
amassing surrounding objects, and is the most retiring of all colours, a
property which it communicates to other colours in mixture. It heightens
the effect of warm as well as light colours, by a double contrast when
opposed to them, and in like manner subdues that of cold and deep
colours. In mixture or glazing, however, these effects are reversed, by
reason of the predominance of cold colour in the constitution of black.
Having, therefore, the double office of colour and of shade, black is
perhaps the most important of all colours to the artist, both as to its
use and avoidance.

It may be laid down as a rule that the black must be conspicuous.
However small a point of black may be, it ought to catch the eye,
otherwise the work is too heavy in the shadow. All the ordinary shadows





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