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A scale of hues of a color consists of a normal color and its hues. 
VIOLET RED. 
RED. 
ORANGE RED. 
Scale of Hues of Red 
YELLOW GREEN. 
GREEN. 
BLUE GREEN. 
Scale of Hues of Green. 
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YO. 
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Full Scale of Hues 
A scale of hues and tones of a color consists of a normal color, 
its hue, and their tints and shades. \_For illustration, see next page. ~\ 
When the color that is added to produce a hue is in excess of the 
basal color, then the added color becomes the basal color in name. 
Pigmentary Pigmentary colors are those colors that are largely 
colors. composed of material substance. They are used chiefly 
in painting, and are divided into two general classes, transparent 
colors, and opaque or body colors. The transparent colors are used to 
a great extent in water-color painting and dyeing ; the opaque colors 
in oil painting. 
Transparent Transparent colors are those colors that have so 
colors. little substance that they do not fully obscure the 
texture or color of the surface to which they are applied. 
Opaque colors are those colors that entirely obscure 
Opaque colors. ^ unc j e rlying color of the surface to which they are 
applied. 
Warm colors. 
Red, Orange and deep Yellow, and the hues in which 
they predominate, are called warm colors. Orange is 
the warmest of these colors. 
Cool colors. 
Green, Blue and pale Violet, and the hues in which 
they predominate, are called cool colors. 
Complementary A complementary color is one that will produce 
colors. white (gray) when mixed with a given color. "As 
white is the sum of all the colors, if we take from white a given color, 
the remaining color is its complementary color." 
It is well known and easily demonstrated that visual impressions 
are not instantaneous, but that an object looked at intently leaves its 
impression for a brief period after the eye has been removed from it. 
This is true not only of form, but also of color, only in the case of 
color it is not the color that was looked at that asserts itself, but its 
opposite or complementary color. If, for instance, the eye has been 
fixed upon a red object for a short time, and is then turned to a sheet 
