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Green Blue, 
This color will be studied most satisfactorily by first supplying the 
pupils with samples of the color; in this way its peculiar hue may be 
impressed upon their minds, then it can 
easily be firmly fixed there by association 
and illustration. 
Green Blue is not a common color in 
nature, a few flowers, some beetles and 
other insects closely approximate it, and 
distant hills and foliage occasion lly suggest 
it, although distance is usually more inclined 
to violet than to blue. 
It is, however, used in decoration to quite an extent, especially 
when it is subdued by association with some other color. 
The effect of this color upon the sight and mind is one of repose. 
If the teacher will procure a little case, it may be home made, in 
which to keep a collection of insects, they may be made useful in 
many ways, especially in interesting the pupils in the colors of natural 
objects. To get the most benefit out of such a collection, they should 
be correctly named and enclosed under a glass so that they may be 
seen at any time, but not handled. 
Harris's Insects Injurious to Vegetation will be found a useful book 
in the study of insects. 
To fold and cut the Pattern. 
i. Fold the opposite corners of the square together, color side in. 
2. Fold the opposite corners together again. 
3. Fold the same way a third time. These folds will make a 
right-angled triangle of eight thicknesses of paper. 
4. Mark out with a pencil on the "raw corner" one-eighth of 
the design. 
5. Cut the patterns as marked out, through all the folds. 
6. Mount the design in the given square. 
7. Draw it in the space below. 
Violet Blue. 
The pupils should have the violet blue and the normal blue paper 
before them, that they may see the difference in these colors. It is 
only by constant association with, and hand- 
ling of the various colors, that the pupils 
will learn to recognize and appreciate them. 
Color charts hung upon the walls of the 
schoolroom will help in impressing this 
work. These may be readily made by the 
teacher by mounting the different colors 
upon sheets of white cardboard. These 
should be of uniform size for convenience in handling, and should 
be large enough to be clearly seen from the most distant part of the 
room. 
Although we are constantly directed to nature for the study of the 
harmonious use of colors, we must bear in mind that what is often 
beautiful in nature is not always so satisfactory in art. Nature uses 
the various tones and hues of green in profusion, and with the most 
pleasing results, and still green is a difficult color to use in decoration. 
But even in nature the various greens are often nicely adjusted to 
harmonize with the colors of the flowers with which they are associated . 
In nature green is the common background for most of the bright 
colors; the birds that carol in our trees, the insects that flit about our 
plants, and the flowers that adorn our fields and woods, are all made 
more beautiful in appearance by this common setting. As the greens 
in nature are often to us merely the backgrounds to enhance the 
beauty of rarer gems of nature's coloring, so in the decoration of a 
room, the colors should be those that will form the most satisfactory 
background for those who occupy it. 
To fold and cut the Pattern. 
Follow the directions given for the preceding exercise. 
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