Ru Is A Dense Deep-toned Brownish Yellow Fine In Sandy Foregrounds
: ON THE PRIMARY, YELLOW.With Indian yellow it gives a dark autumnal tint of great richness, but
stable only as respects the ochre. When mixed with other colours, it
furnishes a series of rich yet sober tones of extensive use. It covers
well, without being too opaque; and compounded with black and a little
brown-red is good for backgrounds, &c.
TTITLE TRANSPARENT GOLD OCHRE
Resembles in a great degree Roman ochre, b
and more transparent. It is also brighter and much less opaque than
yellow ochre. It approaches somewhat the character of clear bright raw
sienna, though more pure and brilliant, serving for strong
semi-transparent greens and sunny effects.
TTITLE OXFORD OCHRE
Is a native pigment from the neighbourhood of Oxford, semi-opaque, of a
warm yellow colour and soft argillaceous texture, absorbent of water and
oil, in both of which it may be safely employed. It is one of the best
of yellow ochres.
TTITLE STONE OCHRE
Has been confounded with the last variety, to which, as well as to Roman
ochre, it is frequently similar. True stone ochres are found in balls or
globular masses of various sizes in the solid body of stones, lying near
the surface of rocks among the quarries of Gloucestershire and
elsewhere. These balls are smooth and compact, in general free from
grit, and of a powdery fracture. They vary exceedingly in colour, from
yellow to brown, murrey, and gray, but otherwise do not differ from
ordinary ochres.
In enamel they may be used for browns and dull reds.
TTITLE DI PALITO
Is a light yellow ochre, with no special distinguishing quality, except
that its tints are rather purer in colour than most ochres.
TTITLE ORIENT YELLOW
Is an entirely new preparation of absolute permanence, and perfectly
unexceptionable in all respects, both in water and oil. We can give it
no higher praise than by saying it equals aureolin in stability, as well
as in neither injuring, nor being injured by, other colours. Not
possessed of the same amount of transparency, it is distinguished by
greater richness and depth. Of a soft golden hue, lustrous and luminous,
it resembles a brilliant and somewhat opaque Indian yellow. A gorgeous
and durable substitute for that fugitive pigment is produced by
compounding the orient with aureolin, or by using the latter as a glaze.
Being more transparent than cadmiums and less obtrusive, the new yellow
is adapted for mellow sunset and sunrise clouds, or for sunshine on
distant mountains. With French blue it affords a beautiful sea green;
and, mixed with aureolin, gives fine foliage tints. It is also eligible
for draperies and illumination. For enamelling it is inadmissible, the
colour being destroyed by great heat; but in fresco it may safely be
employed.
As in the case of aureolin, we have had a prolonged personal experience
of this new yellow, an experience which justifies us in asserting that
there is none more permanent. In the whole range of artistic colours
there is no pigment less affected by chemical or physical agents. Acid
and ammoniacal fumes, foul gases, and exposure to damp, air, light, or
sunshine, equally fail to injure it. The perfect impunity with which it
bears the action both of sulphuretted hydrogen and sulphide of ammonium
is remarkable. The former gas may be continuously passed into the colour
suspended in water, or a strong solution of the latter sulphide be
poured upon it, and the yellow remains unchanged. Submitted to the
direct rays of the sun during an entire summer, its lightest and
faintest tints have preserved their original hue.
In a preceding chapter we remarked that, provided the colour be stable,
the more colour a pigment possesses the better. The "latent colour"
there alluded to, is one of the advantages of orient yellow. The more it
is looked into, the more colour is seen--there is no suspicion of a base
coloured, the pigment is colour itself.
TTITLE ORPIMENT,
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Orange Vermilion
TTITLE VERMILION, Deep or pale, when well made and pure is of strict permanence, not sensibly affected by light, time, or foul air; and eligible either in water, oil, or fresco. For an enamel colour it is unsuited, being dissipated at a red heat,... Otherwise Called Berlin Blue Paris Blue Prussiate Of Iron
... Oxide Of Manganese Which Gives The Red Hue And That Of Cobalt Which
... Paint Its Colouring Matter Or Anchusin Has The Character Of A Resin
and is dark-red, softened by heat, insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and alkalis, and freely so in ether, fats, and volatile oils, to all of which it imparts a brilliant red hue. To obtain anchusin, all the soluble matters are first abstracted fr... Pale Chrome And Deep Chrome Are Chromates Of Lead In Which The
latter metal more or less exists, according to the paleness or depth of the colour. Of modern introduction, they are distinguished for their brilliancy, their opacity and body, and their going cordially into tint with white, both in water and oil. Owi... Pale Vermilion Scarlet Vermilion Chinese Vermilion Carmine
... Peculiar Red Mineral Orange
... Pickle Green &c
The general characteristics of these greens are brightness of colour, well suited to the purposes of house-painting, but seldom adapted to the modesty of nature in fine art; considerable permanence, except when exposed to the action of damp and impu... Picture--that Picture Which May Meet With Foul Exhalations But Must
be exposed to light and air. And he too often thinks as little of the effects of an impure atmosphere or injudicious admixture, as the chemist considers the action of air and light. ... Pigment Says The Chemical News Supplies A Desideratum Hitherto In
vain sought for by artists. It is the nearest approach to a perfect yellow in existence, and more closely resembles the purity of the prismatic spectrum than any other artificial colour. It is transparent, has great brilliancy and richness, both pure ... Pigment The [greek: Kinnabari] Of The Greeks And The Minium--a Term
now confined to red lead--of older writers. Pliny states that it was so esteemed by the Romans, as to have its price fixed by express law of state. Among other places, the natural product is met with in California, Spain, and Peru; and in China there ... Pigments And Bases Are Subject To Deoxidation Or To A Loss Of Oxygen
in which case the colour is apt to deepen. Pigments generally are more affected by oxidation and fading in a water vehicle, and by deoxidation and darkening in one of oil. A principal test of permanency in pigments is the impunity with which they b... Pigments Of Whose Thorough Durability There Is No Doubt Comes The
... Pitch And [greek: Kallos] Ornament The Blue Is Named Pittacal
The mode of separating pittacal has not been clearly described. Dumas states, that when precipitated in a flocculent state from its solutions, or obtained by evaporation, it closely resembles indigo, and, like it, acquires a coppery hue when rubbed.... Plumbago Or Graphite Contains In Spite Of Its Name No Lead Being
simply a species of carbon or charcoal. In most specimens iron is present, varying in quantity from a mere trace up to five per cent, together with silica and alumina. Sometimes manganese and titanic acid are likewise found. It is curious that carbon ... Poppy &c: In Gold Colour &c It Leans Towards Yellow Combined
... Pre-eminently A Warm Colour Being The Equal Contrast Of Or Antagonist
... Predominates To The Eye Constitute The Negative Or Neutral Colours
... Primary Blue Yellow Furnishes All The Variety Of The Secondary
... Primary Colours Are Three Only Yellow Red And Blue They Are
such as yield others by being compounded, but are not themselves capable of being produced by composition of other colours. By way of distinction, they are occasionally designated "entire" colours. ... Primary Yellow The Secondary Orange Or The Tertiary Citrine With
... Principle Under The Name Of Wongshy And Consisting Of The
seed-capsule of a species of gentian. The aqueous extract, freed from the pectin which it contains, yields with baryta- and lime-water yellow precipitates, from which acids separate the colouring matter of a vermilion hue. When thus prepared it is ins... Produced By A Thin Wash Of Black Over White The Neutral Grey Differs
... Proportions Of Thirteen Purple To Three Yellow Measured In Surface
or intensity. Being nearest to the neutral white in the natural scale of colours, yellow accords with it in conjunction; while, of all colours, except white, it contrasts black most powerfully. Yellow is discordant when standing alone with orange, uns... Purple Being A Secondary Colour Composed Of Blue And Red It
follows of course that any blue and red pigments, which are not chemically at variance, may be employed in producing mixed purples of any required hue, either by compounding or grinding them together ready for use, or by combining them in the various ... Quoque
TTITLE PRIMARY BLUE ... Recommended For Painting If Not Too Thinly Applied
... Red And Blue In The Proportions Of Five Of The Former To Eight Of
the latter; proportions which constitute a perfect purple, or one of such a hue as will neutralize and best contrast a perfect yellow, in the ratio of thirteen to three, either of surface or intensity. When mixed ... Red Indian Ochre Scarlet Ochre Carnagione Terra Puzzoli
... Red Is The Archeus Or Principal Colour In The Tertiary Russet; Enters
... Red On The One Hand And Of The Middle Tertiary Russet On The
other; while, unlike the other secondaries, all its hues, whether tending to blue or yellow, are of the same denomination. These attributes of green, which render it so universally effective in contrasting colours, cause it also to become the least ... Requires Its Contrast Orange In Equal Proportion Whether Of Surface
or intensity, to compensate or resolve its dissonances and correct its coldness. In nature, however, blue is not discordant with either green or purple, nor are any two colours (as we have said before) ever found ... Root Of The Anchusa Tinctoria Commonly Known As Alkanet A Plant
growing in the Levant, and some other warm countries. It was used by the ancients as a dye, or as a groundwork to those stuffs which were to be dyed purplish-red: the ladies in ancient times also employed it as a ... Rose Madder Which Is Indeed Indifferently Called Rose Madder Pink
... Rose Rubiate Or Liquid Madder Lake Is A Concentrated Tincture Of
madder of the most beautiful and perfect rose colour and transparency. It is used as a water colour only in its simple state, diluted with water, and with or without gum. In oil it dries by acting as a siccative. Mixed or ground with all other madder ... Royal Blue Dumont's Blue Saxon Blue Thenard's Blue
... Ru Is A Dense Deep-toned Brownish Yellow Fine In Sandy Foregrounds
With Indian yellow it gives a dark autumnal tint of great richness, but stable only as respects the ochre. When mixed with other colours, it furnishes a series of rich yet sober tones of extensive use. It covers well, without being too opaque; and com... Rubiate Or Liquid Madder Lake
TTITLE MADDER CARMINE, ... Rubric Lakes Or Field's Lakes Are Derived From The Root Of Rubia
tinctorum," a plant largely grown in France and Holland, whence the bulk of that used in England is obtained. The French madders are in a state of very fine powder, containing one half their weight of gum, sugar, salts, and other soluble substances, w... Russet Hues Of Autumn Foliage Where Purple And Orange Have Broken Or
superseded the summer green, this interlacing of colour appears; and ... Russet: It Also Furnishes A Series Of Warm Semi-neutral Colours With
black, and harmonizes in contact and variety of tints with white. Orange is an advancing colour in painting:--in nature it is effective at a great distance, acting powerfully on the eye, diminishing its sensibility in accordance with the strength of... Schools Modern Art As Founded Upon The Intellectual School Of The
ancient Greeks, became grand, scientific, and severe in the practice of Michael Angelo, and Leonardo da Vinci; graceful, beautiful and expressive in Raphael, Correggio, Dominichino, and Guido; and, aiming at ... Schweinfurt Green Vienna Green Imperial Green Brunswick
... Secondaries Orange And Green Of Both Which Yellow Is A
constituent, the latter colour is of double occurrence therein, while the other two primaries enter singly into its composition. The mean or middle hue comprehends eight blue, five red, and six yellow, of equal intensities. Hence citrine, according... Secondary Colours Are Three Only Orange Green And Purple
Each of these is composed of, or can be resolved into, two primaries. Thus, orange is composed of red and yellow; green, of yellow and blue; and purple, of blue and red. ... Semi-neutral Colours Belong To A Class Of Which Brown Marrone
... Semi-neutral Gray Is Distinguished From The Neutral Grey Which
springs in an infinite series from the mixture of the neutral black and white. Between gray and grey, however, there is no intermediate, since where colour ends in the one, neutrality commences in the other, and vice versa. Hence the natural alliance ... Semi-neutral Marrone Or Chocolate And Its Relations Puce Murrey
morelle, mordore, pompadour, &c.; and is more or less present in ... Sensible Perfection It Attained Harmony Of Colouring And Effect In
the works of Titian and Tintoret; but it sunk into grossness and ... Sensuality While Perfecting Itself Materially Among The Flemish And
Dutch. In the practice of the individual in painting, as well as in all revolutions of pictorial art, in ancient Greece as in modern Italy, colouring in its perfection has been the last attainment of excellence in every school. It has been justly o... Should Be Of Some Colour--never Black Nor Approaching Black They
should be evidently and always of a luminous nature, and the black should look strange among them; never occurring except in a black object, or in small points indicative of intense shade in the very centre of masses of shadow. Shadows of absolutely n... Small Insect--coccus Ficus--made For The Sake Of Depositing Its Ova On
the branches of several plants, found in Siam, Assam, and Bengal. The twigs soon become encrusted with a mammelated substance of a red colour more or less deep, nearly transparent, hard, and having a brilliant conchoidal fracture. The roughly-prepared... So Called From The Arabic Alkermes It Is Sometimes Spelt Cermes
whence probably cermosin and crimson, and kermine and carmine. In old ... So On The Palette Of Nature Each Colour Is An Example Of Colouring:
no colour is too absolute or defined, no perfectly pure blue appears beside a perfectly pure green. A blue flower nestled in its green leaves does not offend the nicest eye, but the blue and green are not blue and green alone. There is, perhaps, but a... Softer Texture Some Of My Friends Says Bouvier Call It Beggars'
... Sometimes Called China Or Chinese Ink Is Chiefly Brought From
China in oblong cakes, of a musky scent, ready prepared for painting in water. Varying considerably in body and colour, the best has a shining black fracture, is finely compact, and homogeneous when rubbed with water, in which, when largely diluted, i... Sometimes Called Dewint's Green Is An Arbitrary Compound Or Mixed
green, of a fine deep olive colour and sober richness. Advisedly or not, it is used in landscape, sketching, &c.; but only in water, olive lake supplying its place in oil. Like many other compound pigments, it is either permanent, semi-stable, or fugi... Sometimes Designated Drop Gum And Variously Written Gamboge
... Spanish Red Is An Ochre Differing Little From The Above
TTITLE PURE SCARLET, ... Spelt With An E The Two Names Being Occasionally Confounded Gray
is semi-neutral, and denotes a class of cool cinereous colours, faint of hue; whence we have blue grays, olive grays, green grays, purple grays, and grays of all hues in which blue predominates; but no yellow or red grays, the predominance of such hue... Splendid Viridian A Green Nothing But Fire Will Change And No
mixture of blue and yellow will afford. Clear, bright, and transparent as the emerald, it rivals velvet in its soft gorgeous richness. With this and Aureolin a series of beautiful foliage tints may be formed, sparkling with sunshine, as it were. Ot... State The Best Smalt In Lumps Appears Black Yields A Blue Powder On
grinding, becomes paler on further grinding, and may be almost decolourised by continued and excessive grinding. Smalt, it has been stated, is merely a blue glass; and when a piece of blue glass, or a blue crystal of sulphate of copper, is reduced to ... Subdued Blue These Are Often Beautifully Opposed In Nature Being
medial accordances or in equal relation to light, shade and other colours, and among the most agreeable to sense. Russet, as we have said, partakes of the relations of red, but it is a hue moderated in every respect, and qualified for greater breadt... Subordinately Into The Two Other Tertiaries Citrine And Olive; Goes
largely into the composition of the various hues and shades of the ... Subordinates For Orange And Purple Being The Immediate Constituents
of russet, and red being a component part of each of those colours, it follows that red enters doubly into russet, while yellow and blue appear but once therein. The proportions of its middle hue are eight blue, ten red, and three yellow, of equal int... Sufficient To Make The Sulphur Bite Into The Base This Opinion
indeed, extends to all metallic sulphides, and our belief is, that if vermilions were made generally by wet processes, they would not be found the permanent pigments they undoubtedly are. TTITLE MUTRIE YELLOW. Under this name a lemon sulphide of ... Swedish Green Olympian Green Imperial Green Mitis Green
... Terre De Cassel Or Corruptly Castle Earth Is Specially An Oil
pigment, similar to burnt umber but of a more russet hue. It is an earth containing bitumen, a substance which, with pit-coal, lignite or brown coal, jet, petroleum or rock oil, naphtha, &c., is looked upon as a product of the decomposition of organic... Tertiary Colours Are Three Only Citrine Russet And Olive
Each of these is composed of, or can be resolved into, either two secondary colours, or the three primaries. Thus, citrine consists of green and orange, or of a predominant yellow with blue and red; russet is compounded of orange and purple, or of a p... Tertiary Olive: Hence Its Relations And Accordances Are More General
and its contrasts more agreeable with all colours, than those of any other individual colour. Accordingly it has been adopted very wisely in nature as the common garb of the vegetal creation. It is, indeed, in every respect a central or medial colour,... Texture And What Is Called Body In Colours; Yet Every Pigment Has Its
peculiarities in respect to working both in water and oil, and these must become matter of every artist's special experience. Some of the best pigments are most difficult of management, while some ineligible colours are rich in body and free in workin... Than Themselves; And Into Painters Whose Motto Is Vita Brevis Est Ars
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