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269. SILVER OR PEARL GREY
Mix white lead, indigo, and a very light portion of black, regulating the quant.i.ties by the shade you wish to obtain.
270. FLAXEN GREY
This is obtained by a mixture of white lead and Prussian blue, with a small quant.i.ty of lake.
271. BRICK COLOUR
This is prepared by mixing yellow ochre, and red lead, with a little white lead.
272. OAK WOOD COLOUR
Mix together three-fourths white lead, and one-fourth part umber and yellow ochre; the proportions of the last two ingredients being determined by the required tints.
273. WALNUT TREE COLOUR
Two-thirds white lead, and one-third red ochre, yellow ochre, and umber, mixed according to the shade sought. If veining is required, use different shades of the same mixture, and for the deepest places, black.
274. JONQUIL
Mix together yellow, pink, and white lead. This colour is only proper for distemper.
275. LEMON YELLOW
Mix together realgar and orpiment; some object to this mixture on account of the poisonous nature of the ingredients. The same colour can be obtained by mixing yellow-pink with Naples yellow; but it is then only fit for distemper.
276. ORANGE COLOUR
For this colour mix red lead and yellow ochre.
277. VIOLET COLOUR
Make, by mixing vermillion, or red lead, with black or blue, and a small portion of white: vermillion is far preferable to red lead, in mixing this colour.
278. PURPLE
Made by mixing dark-red with violet-colour.
279. CARNATION
Mix together lake colour and white.
280. GOLD COLOUR
This is procured by mixing ma.s.sicot, or Naples yellow, with a small quant.i.ty of realgar, and a very little Spanish white.
281. OLIVE COLOUR
This may be obtained by various mixtures: black and a little blue, mixed with yellow; yellow-pink, with a little verdigris and lamp-black; or ochre and a small quant.i.ty of white, will also produce a kind of olive colour. For distemper, indigo and yellow-pink, mixed with white lead or Spanish white, must be used. If veined, it should be done with umber.
282. LEAD COLOUR
Mix together indigo and white lead or whiting.
283. CHESTNUT COLOUR
Mix red-ochre and black, for a dark-chestnut. To make it lighter, employ a mixture of yellow-ochre.
284. LIGHT TIMBER COLOUR
For this colour mix together spruce-ochre, white and a little umber.
285. FLESH COLOUR
Mix lake, white-lead, and a little vermilion.
286. LIGHT WILLOW GREEN
This is made by mixing white with verdigris.
287. STONE COLOUR
Mix white with a little spruce-ochre.
288. DARK LEAD COLOUR
Mix black and white with a little indigo.
