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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.23830#0031
ON COLOURING.
The colours requisite are Gamboge, Yellow Ochre, Light Red, Indian Red,
Vermilion, Lake, Burnt Sienna, Brown Pink, Vandyke Brown, Cobalt,
Indigo, Black, and Sepia.
For the mixing of tints, besides the small saucers, a delf palette is recom-
mended, having divisions, in which the tints may be preserved without fear
of their running into each other. Select some good swan and goose quill
pencils of different sizes, and a few flat brushes for washing or softening the
skies.
It would be perplexing, even if it were advisable, to attempt a description
of the effects of colours when compounded, as the variety is endless; but it
may be essential that a few particulars on this point should be mentioned.
The primitive colours are Red, Blue, and Yellow. A simple tint is
produced by colour being rubbed from one cake, and reduced with clean
The colours requisite are Gamboge, Yellow Ochre, Light Red, Indian Red,
Vermilion, Lake, Burnt Sienna, Brown Pink, Vandyke Brown, Cobalt,
Indigo, Black, and Sepia.
For the mixing of tints, besides the small saucers, a delf palette is recom-
mended, having divisions, in which the tints may be preserved without fear
of their running into each other. Select some good swan and goose quill
pencils of different sizes, and a few flat brushes for washing or softening the
skies.
It would be perplexing, even if it were advisable, to attempt a description
of the effects of colours when compounded, as the variety is endless; but it
may be essential that a few particulars on this point should be mentioned.
The primitive colours are Red, Blue, and Yellow. A simple tint is
produced by colour being rubbed from one cake, and reduced with clean