hem with white at the right, then the
yellows, then the reds, the browns, blues, blacks, and greens. But I
have found this as I give it, to be the best for use, simply because
it keeps the proper colors together, and the white, which you use
most, where it is most easily got at, and I think you will find it a
good arrangement.
=A Cheap Palette.=--This palette I give so that you may see the range
possible with absolutely sound colors which are all of the least
price. You can get no high key with it. All the colors are low in
tone. You could not paint the bright pitch of landscape with it, yet
it is practically what they tried to paint landscape with a hundred
years ago, and it accounts largely for the lack of bright greens in
the landscapes of that date. But for all sorts of indoor work and for
portraits you will find it possible to get most beautiful results. You
will notice there is no bright yellow. That is because cadmium is
expensive and chrome is not permanent. Vermilion is left out for the
same reason. Add orange vermilion and cadmium yellow and orange
cadmium, and you have a powerful palette of great range and absolute
permanency.
WHITE. NAPLES YELLOW.
VENETIAN RED. YELLOW OCHRE.
LIGHT RED. ROMAN OCHRE.
INDIAN RED. TRANSPARENT GOLD OCHRE.
BURNT SIENNA.
RAW UMBER.
PERMANENT BLUE.
IVORY BLACK.
TERRE VERTE.
=An All-Round Palette=:--
WHITE. STRONTIAN YELLOW.
ORANGE VERMILION. CADMIUM YELLOW.
ROSE MADDER. ORANGE CADMIUM.
BURNT SIENNA. YELLOW OCHRE.
RAW UMBER.
COBALT.
ULTRAMARINE.
IVORY BLACK.
TERRE VERTE.
This palette is a pretty large one, and you can do almost anything
with it. But for many things it is better to have more of certain
kinds of colors and less of others. This is a good palette for all
sorts of in-the-house work, and if you call it a still-life palette,
it will name it very well. For a student it will do anything he is apt
to be capable of for a good while.
=A Rich Low-Keyed Portrait and Figure Palette=:--
WHITE. CADMIUM.
CHINESE VERMILION. ORANGE CADMIUM.
LIGHT RED. YELLOW OCHRE.
ROSE MADDER. TRANSPARENT GOLD OCHRE.
RAW UMBER.
COBALT.
BLUE BLACK.
TERRE VERT
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