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

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CHAPTER III.

FINE COLOURING.

Having shewn in the preceding chapters certain
principles upon which Pictorial arrangements of
Colours may be ensured, the attention of the
reader must be directed to what other qualities
are requisite to constitute Fine Colouring.

Fine Colouring must not be confounded with
Fine Colours. Some of the Finest Colourists have
avoided Fine Colours, and Sir Joshua Reynolds
adduces as a proof that Apelles was a Fine Colourist,
the statement by Pliny, that, " after he had
finished his pictures, he passed an atramentum, or
blackness, over the whole of them. "