Of greens may be obtained from it as a basis, It readily lends itself for a variety of purposes by being qualified with yellow, brown, or even blue and carmine, with the most charming results; and just in the proportion in which they are added will the yellow, brown blue, or carmine predominate.
Yet useful as is this color, --- chrome green, --- it is insufficient for all purposes ; and two or three additional ones give greater satisfaction, a more diversified scheme or color, and greater variety, for general work.
To recapitulate -- provide a variety of colors in their pure state, and then modify them, by a judicious mixing, to harmonize with the scheme of color suitable to the subject on hand. The same advice is equally good in reference to gray tones.
Grays are absolutely indispensable in all painting where any effort is made to model a form ; neither rotundity nor distance can be depicted without gray. In a flat, purely conventional design, there is no necessity for grays ; but they are absolutely requisite to delineate a natural object by a realistic treatment.
To model with only light and heavy Shadow of one color is absolutely bad.
In this statement monochromes are not included. They have their place in art ; always had 1.
1. they had fewer colors then but the above still holds true..and that is what is lacking in so much of the non naturalistic painting today.
