§ 55 XI.— XIII. PROPER POSITION OP COLOURS. Ill 



blue, looks darker by candlelight, and is not an eligible colour 

 by daylight. 



XII. Colours that harmonise well may appear less pleasing, 

 in consequence of each not being properly placed next to a 

 neighbouring one that accords well with it. The arrange- 

 ment must therefore be consulted ; and it is not enough that 

 they should be such as accord, they must be so placed as 

 to have their full effect on each other. Thus when a blue is 

 only placed at the edges of a pattern, the centre of which 

 consists of red, yellow, and other colours, it looks isolated ; 

 it should be connected by being carried through the inner 

 part, in order to give the full combination of all the colours, 

 and the blue would thus be united with the other colours in 

 the centre of the pattern. When white, or yellow, is intro- 

 duced, a pattern is generally improved by the addition of 

 black, or by a black ground; and a black fillet separating 

 each colour in a complicated pattern has a good effect {see 

 Sect. IX. p. 108). As an instance how much the same colours 

 may be affected by their arrangement, I may mention that in 

 a combination of red and blue and black and white and gold, 

 which is harmonious, if the red is placed between the black 

 and white, on a gold ground, they all look poor; while black 

 and white and red and blue, or black and white and blue 

 and red, are a pleasing arrangement (see also pp. 62, 63, 137). 

 Again, green and black and red and blue are improved 

 by the addition of white, which last being a contrast to black 

 gives it its full power. 



XIII. The combination of warm and cold colours, in proper 

 proportion, is a very great means of obtaining harmony ; and 

 thus we find that when red or orange predominates, a good 

 effect is produced by a corresponding quantity of blue. But 

 it is not sufficient for one colour to be warm to make it 

 accord with another which is cold ; and though orange bar- 



