Thursday, April 8, 2010

SETTING THE PALETTE page 42

The fewest colors recommended to the beginner with which to do the average general work are three greens, -- apple green, chrome green and brown green ; one pink, -- Carmine No 1 ; one --- ruby ; one purple, -- deep violet of gold ; one red, -- deep red brown ; two yellows, -- yellow for mixing and silver yellow ; one blue, -- deep blue green ; two browns, -- orange and brown no. 3. These , with violet of iron and flux, form a simple, inexpensive list of colors quite sufficient to produce a variety of decorations. But probably the less experienced will require more colors than those already acquainted with the possibilities of these few. Therefore the following additional