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DESCRIPTION OF THE QUALITIES OF PIGMENTS. 37
the middle distance when under shadow. For this purpose these tints, being both
pure and powerful, are preferred to those made with Indian red.
BROWN MADDER.
This rich russet-coloured pigment is indispensable in water-colour painting. It
appears to be the middle hue between orange and purple; and when used in various
proportions, with yellow oehre, produces a rich warm tint on the white paper,
preparing it to receive other colours with an harmonious effect. With gamboge or
Indian yellow, it forms the fine glowing hues of autumnal foliage.
BROWN PINK.
A vegetable pigment, made from French berries or dyeing woods. It is a rich
orange green, much used to form the greens of the foreground. It is easily varied
by a small quantity of indigo or transparent yellow.
VANDYKE BROWN.
This is a fine deep transparent colour, used in the warm rich browns of the fore-
ground. When mixed with indigo or French blue it forms a deep neutral green,
very effective in representing the shadows of trees in water. Like the other brown
pigments, it does not retire well, but appears constantly near the eye. Brown
madder should take its place in the middle distance, or it should be subdued by the
more aerial blues.
SEPIA.
This pigment is made from the dark liquor procured from the cuttle-fish, and is
of a dusky brown colour. It works well; and being agreeable in colour is used as
the medium for brush-practice. It harmonizes well with French blue, with which,
and Chinese white, it has been employed on gray paper in the present work. This
mode of working it forms an excellent introduction to the use of the colours.
payne's gray.
This is one of the numerous preparations of neutral tints supplied by the
manufacturers ; but it is generally better for the artist to make these combinations
for himself. Sometimes, however, the colourman's constituents are so well chosen
and incorporated, that the result surpasses anything that can be obtained, at the
moment, by the use either of sepia and indigo or madder and other Jakes, combined
with indigo or French blue.
the middle distance when under shadow. For this purpose these tints, being both
pure and powerful, are preferred to those made with Indian red.
BROWN MADDER.
This rich russet-coloured pigment is indispensable in water-colour painting. It
appears to be the middle hue between orange and purple; and when used in various
proportions, with yellow oehre, produces a rich warm tint on the white paper,
preparing it to receive other colours with an harmonious effect. With gamboge or
Indian yellow, it forms the fine glowing hues of autumnal foliage.
BROWN PINK.
A vegetable pigment, made from French berries or dyeing woods. It is a rich
orange green, much used to form the greens of the foreground. It is easily varied
by a small quantity of indigo or transparent yellow.
VANDYKE BROWN.
This is a fine deep transparent colour, used in the warm rich browns of the fore-
ground. When mixed with indigo or French blue it forms a deep neutral green,
very effective in representing the shadows of trees in water. Like the other brown
pigments, it does not retire well, but appears constantly near the eye. Brown
madder should take its place in the middle distance, or it should be subdued by the
more aerial blues.
SEPIA.
This pigment is made from the dark liquor procured from the cuttle-fish, and is
of a dusky brown colour. It works well; and being agreeable in colour is used as
the medium for brush-practice. It harmonizes well with French blue, with which,
and Chinese white, it has been employed on gray paper in the present work. This
mode of working it forms an excellent introduction to the use of the colours.
payne's gray.
This is one of the numerous preparations of neutral tints supplied by the
manufacturers ; but it is generally better for the artist to make these combinations
for himself. Sometimes, however, the colourman's constituents are so well chosen
and incorporated, that the result surpasses anything that can be obtained, at the
moment, by the use either of sepia and indigo or madder and other Jakes, combined
with indigo or French blue.