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LANDSCAPE PAINTING.
other colours; or when slightly modified hy them it may be applied in small brilliant
touches, in order to give the brightest lights on foliage.
GAMBOGE.
A bright transparent yellow, very important in making most kinds of green;
those with indigo or Antwerp blue are clear and cool. "With the addition of burnt
Sienna, or other transparent orange colours, it makes a rich and easily varied
autumnal tint; with sepia, Payne's gray or black, it forms sober greens, as useful as
they are numerous; and with brown madder, a rich autumnal tint. Not having a
retiring quality, caution is necessary when employing it in the distance. Gamboge
is a vegetable gum, and though not quite permanent is considered one of the best
yellow pigments for the above purpose.
INDIAN YELLOW
Has greater body and depth of colour than gamboge, and is of a rich golden
hue. Combined with indigo or French blue, it makes deep intense greens; and with
burnt Sienna or brown madder, pure and glowing autumnal tints. Care, however,
must be observed in its application, as it is apt to produce tints too strong and
forced. Having these qualities it is more employed in the foregrounds than the
distance.
YELLOW OCHRE.
The ochres are among the most ancient and valuable of our pigments, and are
found abundantly in this and other countries. They vary very much in colour, from
a bright (not vivid or pure) yellow to a deep brown. They are not powerful; but
possessing a slight degree of opacity and a retiring quality they are frequently
employed in forming the subdued greens of the middle or extreme distance. The
most useful is yellow ochre, which may be considered in some degree broken, that
is to say, a mixed colour, partaking slightly of a reddish character; this produces
a neutral quality, causing it to be often used in combination with another mixed
colour, namely, brown madder, to make a warm neutral orange for the first or
harmonizing tint intended to give a general idea of sunlight and warmth, without
any positive colour. The other ochres, with the exception of Roman ochre, are
little used; the latter is deeper, and rather more transparent than yellow ochre.
RAW SIENNA.
Sienna, in its natural state, is of rather an impure or tawny yellow. Being very
transparent it is excellent for forming the first greenish hues of water, whether as
LANDSCAPE PAINTING.
other colours; or when slightly modified hy them it may be applied in small brilliant
touches, in order to give the brightest lights on foliage.
GAMBOGE.
A bright transparent yellow, very important in making most kinds of green;
those with indigo or Antwerp blue are clear and cool. "With the addition of burnt
Sienna, or other transparent orange colours, it makes a rich and easily varied
autumnal tint; with sepia, Payne's gray or black, it forms sober greens, as useful as
they are numerous; and with brown madder, a rich autumnal tint. Not having a
retiring quality, caution is necessary when employing it in the distance. Gamboge
is a vegetable gum, and though not quite permanent is considered one of the best
yellow pigments for the above purpose.
INDIAN YELLOW
Has greater body and depth of colour than gamboge, and is of a rich golden
hue. Combined with indigo or French blue, it makes deep intense greens; and with
burnt Sienna or brown madder, pure and glowing autumnal tints. Care, however,
must be observed in its application, as it is apt to produce tints too strong and
forced. Having these qualities it is more employed in the foregrounds than the
distance.
YELLOW OCHRE.
The ochres are among the most ancient and valuable of our pigments, and are
found abundantly in this and other countries. They vary very much in colour, from
a bright (not vivid or pure) yellow to a deep brown. They are not powerful; but
possessing a slight degree of opacity and a retiring quality they are frequently
employed in forming the subdued greens of the middle or extreme distance. The
most useful is yellow ochre, which may be considered in some degree broken, that
is to say, a mixed colour, partaking slightly of a reddish character; this produces
a neutral quality, causing it to be often used in combination with another mixed
colour, namely, brown madder, to make a warm neutral orange for the first or
harmonizing tint intended to give a general idea of sunlight and warmth, without
any positive colour. The other ochres, with the exception of Roman ochre, are
little used; the latter is deeper, and rather more transparent than yellow ochre.
RAW SIENNA.
Sienna, in its natural state, is of rather an impure or tawny yellow. Being very
transparent it is excellent for forming the first greenish hues of water, whether as