all, and requires more skillful treatment, It will utterly absorb reds or browns if mixed with them for shading. Mixed with black, it makes a rich dark olive green. There is not much necessity for orange yellow, as silver yellow answers the purpose for yellow flowers, draperies, fruit, and tinting.
By consulting the color plates, it will be seen that there are a large number and variety of blues. Many of these have names that indicate at once their special uses, such as sky blue, old blue, delft blue, cornflower blue, old rouen blue, and Holland blue.
The prettiest and most useful, however is listed under the greens, and its name is deep blue green. It is not green at all, but the most perfect pure blue of the mineral colors. It is always lovely applied in any degree of strength, although when strong it is by no means dark, It is generally useful ; indeed, one can scarcely paint without it. It is used for all blue flowers, draperies, skies ; in fact, everywhere a pretty blue is wanted. It combines well with green, red, pink, gray, and violet of iron for shadowy effects and vague forms, as seen in the distance ; and with violet of gold every possible variety required for violets, lilacs, and orchids; in fact, with any color except yellow, and with this it assumes a disagreeable gray tone.
