and easily managed, and, as the change produced in the firing is scarcely perceptible, are very satisfactory colors.
The Reds are easily distinguished from the pinks and crimsons as being of more brilliant vivid coloring, entirely different in quality, and the nearest approach in the mineral palette to vermilion or scarlet.
Deep red brown, capucine red, and orange red are the most useful. The first mentioned is listed under browns, but it is devoid of any tint of the general acceptation of the word brown. On the contrary, it is a very bright red, and one of the most serviceable of colors. Although of a brilliant shade, in its full strength, used very thins and fluxed, it is a frequently used as a substitute for pinks, and even for flesh tones, combined with silver yellow, Carnation no. 1 is also frequently used for a similar purpose. Both combine well with yellow, and produce very pleasant salmon and shrimp pink shades.
While carnation, fluxed and applied in very thin washes, is sometimes used to paint pink flowers, and though quite agreeable in tint, it really is not a pure or rose pink. This particular shade is only obtained from the gold colors.
While the reds mix freely with the yellows, care must be exercised when yellow for mixing is
