54 COLOR. 



5 Red and 3 Yellow, and thronghout nature are these proportions preserved. 



The primary colors placed side by side produce liarmony 

 and to gain variety we form from tliera secondaries which are Purple, 

 Green and Orange, ^E||9y| and again from these together with the 

 primaries, tertiaries which are Olive, Kusset and Citrine, and so forth. 



Few know the simple fact how to decide on the most correct colors 

 to produce harmony. Purple, Green and Orange, have each their pro2:)er 

 harmonizers in Yellow, Red and Blue, being in each case the primary, not 

 used to produce the secondary with which each is brought in contact; arid 

 as tertiaries, owing to their combinations, are duller than secondaries from 

 which they are principally composed, their contrasting color should in like 

 proportion be more sober, and should partake most of that secondary or 

 primary (for primaries may sometimes be introduced with good effect in 

 small quantities) which enters least into the combination of the tertiary. 



Colors may be said to speak a language, and most eminent colorists 

 have always kept this in view. Blue has been compared by some to Majtstv, 

 by others to strength, thought, peace, and gloom. Red to life, health and 

 beauty ; Yellow to light and purity ; Green is perhaps the most cheerf i.l 

 color and is undoubtedly the most agreeable and lively tint. 



The proper value of each 'color may be easily determined accordinir 

 to the proportion of the jDrimaries forming light ; Blue being the most 

 abundant may be held the cheapest; Red being found in smaller quantities 

 is more valuable ; and Yellow being the scarcest, should always be sparingh- 

 used, for nothing creates so gaudy and jDaltry an appearance as an extravagant 

 use of Yellow. Black and Wliite are not acknowledged colors, but their 

 assistance to enhance the beauty of others is most valuable. They should 

 seldom appear in large quantities. 



The Red, Blue, and Yellow of Commerce are not the same tints as 

 those meant when speaking of the primaries, because you can rarely find 

 them pure ; biit this does not prevent the same laws being brought to berir. 



Combinations of color may be made to appear sombre, cheerful, or 

 elegant, just in the proportion of the use made of that color which is 

 acknowledged to represent it. For example, if a room is required to have 

 a sombre or thoughtful appearance, Blue is the color that should prevail : 

 but it is not necessary that it should be used m its pure state; — Pui-ple, and 

 Green, both of which contain blue in large quantities may be used,, whick 



