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OF NO CONSEQUENCE 



professional painter has returned my 

 picture with a first lesson, and the compli- 

 ments for which I pant. Among other things, he 

 has given me a strong caution against the use of 

 the following colours : 



Italian Pink, 

 Mars Yellow, 

 Scarlet Madder Alizarin, 

 Both Hooker's Greens, 

 Purple Lake, 

 Primrose Aureolin, 

 Constant White, 

 Permanent Mauve, 



and 

 Intense Blue. 



Oxide of Chromium he admits to the palette. 

 So my instinct was right. He has put me back 

 on Vandyke Brown, Siennas, and other common 

 old things. I expect I am not sufficiently adroit 



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