Monday, April 5, 2010

SELECTING AND MIXING COLORS page 38

and always will. They have distinctive features, all their own ; and in spite of blue trees, brown skies, or red water, their distinguishing characteristics are respected and admired.
A reference to the colored plates will reveal a large variety of shades of gray, More or less useful. 1. Pearl gray, the softest and most delicate tint, is quite a necessary adjunct to the color - box. It is useful in many ways. It is a good glazing color, fusing readily, and can be freely used ; mixes well with other colors, and its introduction in small quantities does no materially change their hue, as if fires very largely away. Warm Gray is also equally useful. It is a soft, pinkish color, and may be freely used. Neutral gray is a very dark, cold, intense color, seldom used, and then generally in connection with other colors.

Royal Cophenhagen gray, a color recently added to the Lacroix 2. list, is a pleasing and manageable color ; alone, it is a beautiful tint, and it combine well with other colors in the matter of shading.

All of the grays glaze well. Those mentioned are used more generally than the others.

Gray is the result of neutralizing one color with another ; and the most agreeable tones are likely
1. color chart will not be printed. 2. colors not made any longe.