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Extremes And Greys Their Intermediates Thus Black And White Are
constituted of, and comprise latently, the principles of all colours, and accompany them in their depth and brilliancy as shade and light. ...
Ferrocyanide Of Iron &c Was Accidentally Discovered In 1710 By
Diesbach, a colour-maker at Berlin. It is a compound of iron and cyanogen, of varying composition, formed by adding yellow prussiate of potash to a persalt of iron, or by oxidizing the precipitate obtained from the prussiate and a protosalt. The fines...
Field's Purple Or Purple Rubiate Is The Only Durable Organic
purple the palette possesses. Marked by a soft subdued richness rather than by brilliancy, it leans somewhat towards marrone, and affords the greatest depth of shadow without coldness of tint. Unfortunately, in the whole range of artistic pigments the...
Fineness Of Texture Is Produced By Extreme Grinding And Levigation
Pigments ground in water in the state of a thick paste, are miscible in oil and dry therein firmly; and in case of utility or necessity, any water-colour in cake, being rubbed off thick in water may be diffused in oil, the gum acting as a medium of un...
Firm Line--not Wash--of Carmine (of Madder Preferable--ed) Passed
within the outline on the shade side only of the leaf, will give to the whole the look of a bright scarlet surface, but with an indescribable superadded charm, that no merely flat colour can possess." In the same branch of art, illumination, cadmium o...
For Artists Such Are Harding's And Macpherson's Tints Composed Of
pigments which associate cordially, and sold ready prepared in cakes and boxes for miniature and water painting. Of the four grays in use--mineral gray, ultramarine ash, neutral tint, and Payne's gray--the two first are quite unchangeable, and the o...
From The Semi-neutral Gray In Not Being Coloured By Any Primary
secondary, tertiary, or semi-neutral; hence any blue, purple, olive, or gray added to it, at once destroys the neutrality of grey, and converts it into gray. Thus easily defiled and changed in class, grey is rather a theoretical than a practical colou...
Fugitive But We May Briefly Explain It By Saying When Vitreous
pigments are reduced to that extreme state of division which the palette requires, they lose the properties they possess in a less finely divided ...
Furnishes The Blue Are Added To Brown Or Yellow Frit To Obtain A
velvety black glass. Similarly the dyer proceeds to dye black upon a deep blue basis of indigo, with the ruddy colour of madder and the yellow of quercitron, &c. Some of the best blacks and neutrals of the painter are those formed with colours of s...
Gambodium Gambogium &c Is The Produce Of Several Kinds Of Trees
The natives of the coast of Coromandel call the tree from which it is principally obtained Gokathu, which grows also in Ceylon and Siam. From the wounded leaves and young shoots the gamboge is collected in a liquid state and dried. Our indigenous herb...
General Effect Of A Picture Fourthly There Is The Contrast Of Colour
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Green As Well As Subordinately The Tertiaries Russet And Olive
It also enters in a very subdued degree into cool, semi-neutral, and broken colours, and assists in minor proportion with blue and red in the ...
Green Mitis Green &c Is A Cupric Aceto-arsenite Prepared On The
large scale by mixing arsenious acid with acetate of copper and water. It differs from Scheele's Green, or cupric arsenite, in being lighter, more vivid, and more opaque. Powerfully reflective of light, it is perhaps the most durable pigment of its cl...
Green Saxon Green French Green African Green Persian Green
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Green Schweinfurt Green Verdigris Green Bice Green
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Browns And The Cold Semi-neutral Grays Marrone Is Practically To
Black Chalk
Also Called Scarlet Chrome Is A Bright Chromate Of Lead Of An
Burnt Verdigris
Belong The Dutch And Flemish Schools; The Sensible Which Aims At
Composition Chemical Analysis Has Shown Several Of The Blues To Be
Less Known As English Red Prussian Red And Scarlet Ochre True
Olive In Dark Green; Russet And Citrine In Dark Orange The
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Pitch And [greek: Kallos] Ornament The Blue Is Named Pittacal
Pigment The [greek: Kinnabari] Of The Greeks And The Minium--a Term
Peculiar Red Mineral Orange
For Artists Such Are Harding's And Macpherson's Tints Composed Of
We Have Adopted The Term Marrone Or Maroon As It Is Sometimes Called
Softer Texture Some Of My Friends Says Bouvier Call It Beggars'
Russet Hues Of Autumn Foliage Where Purple And Orange Have Broken Or
Uniform Colour Thus Composed Is The Citrine Colour Of Fruit And