Howard, Frank: Colour, as a means of art: being an adaptation of the experience of professors to the practice of amateurs (London, 1838)

PICTURES IN COLOUR. SS

numerous varieties of style or character of pictures.
And that the principle deduced by Sir Joshua
Reynolds from the Venetian school, that one-third
of the picture should (may) be cool, and the
remaining two-thirds warm, is also just; and will be
productive of beautiful results. The error consists
in making these relative proportions indispensable
to Harmony.

This chapter will contain such principles as have
been found to ensure Harmony. There may,
perhaps, be many others in store for future dis-
covery.

These principles are of universal application,
whatever objects may be the subject of the drawing
or picture, whether landscape, figures, animals,
flowers, or altogether : and they are wholly
independent of Poetical or Dramatic colouring,—
the application of colour to Expression and
Character, — and of the colouring of individual
objects.

The art of composition, in regard to colour,
consists in arranging objects in such a manner, that
their true colouring will produce the combination
required by the principle adopted. The art of too
many of the artists of the present day, consists in