Secondaries Orange And Green Of Both Which Yellow Is A
: ON THE TERTIARY, CITRINE.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 to its name, which is that of a class of
colours and used commonly for a dark yellow, partakes in a subdued
degree of all the powers of its archeus yellow. In estimating,
therefore, its properties and effects in painting, it is to be regarded
as participating of all the relations of yellow. By some this colour is
improperly called brown, as almost all broken colours are. The
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... 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...