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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
... The Blue Colouring Matter Of The Lapis Lazuli A Stone Chiefly Brought
from China, Thibet, and the shores of Lake Baikal. About the antiquity of the stone, and its colour, much has been written, and many conflicting statements have been made; but there is little doubt that our lapis lazuli was the sapphire of the ancient... The Book; Lest His Aim Be Defeated Of Reflecting In A Moderate-sized
mirror the palette as it is and might be at the present day. Arrived at age, as it were, in its twenty-first chapter, this treatise may fitly conclude with Black, the last of the series of colours. Let us hope the maxim of Sir Joshua Reynolds, that su... The Grinding Sufficient Only Of Clear Cold Jelly Of Gum Tragacanth As
will connect them into a body, and attach them to the paper in painting. Cold starch will answer the same purpose. Constant white is a sulphate of baryta, found native and known under the name of heavy-spar, or prepared artificially by adding sulphu... The Laque De Garance Which Was Tinged With The Rouge Of Carthamus
and was of course inferior in durability. As, however, liquid ammonia and alkalis generally dissolve the colours of cochineal, lac, and safflower, the test is simple. If the liquid remain uncoloured on adding ammonia to an assumed madder lake, in all ... The Name Of Giallolino And Was Variously Of A Pleasing Light Warm
yellow tint. It was opaque and of good body, not altered by the light of the sun, and might be used with comparative safety in oil or varnish, under the same management as the whites of lead. Like these, however, it was liable to change even to blackn... The Pigments Liable To Injury From Sulphuretted Hydrogen &c Are
notably those obtained from lead and copper; and that treacherous compound of iodine and mercury, known as pure scarlet. ... The Reds Seem For The Most Part To Be Composed Of Oxide Of Iron Mixed
with lime, and were probably limited to iron earths and ochres, with a ... The Same In Light And Shade Or White And Black Which Mix With
clearness. Now, there are only two ways in which this distinctness in union of contrasts can be effected in practice: the one is by hatching or breaking them together in mixture, without compounding them uniformly; and the other is by glazing, in whic... The Secondary Orange And Its Near Relatives Scarlet &c; And With
... The Secondary The Tertiary And The Semi-neutral
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