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keeping in mind the proper handling of the color. All 
washes with oil and turpentine mixed with the color in the 
brush and the darkest touches with turpentine only. Over 
the yellow block Yellow Brown, leaving sharp high-lights 
of the yellow. Now with Yellow Red shade a. little darker 
not covering all the Yellow Brown. The darkest touches 
are of Hair Brown. 
Detail for the shading of the nuts will be given accord- 
ing to the number of the design. Background and leaves 
should be in before the nuts are painted. Complete each 
panel at a working to insure the color keeping open. 
No. i , Beech Nuts — Wash open shell lightly with 
Yellow; shade with Brown Green; spike with Hair Brown, 
mixed with turpentine. Closed nuts are washed with Yel- 
low Brown ; shade with Hair Brown ; spikes and all stems of 
same; leaves Green. 
No. 2, The Hickory Nut — Outside of hulls wash with 
Yellow Brown; shade with Brown Green and Hair Brown. 
Inside of hull and nut wash in Yellow and shade in Brown 
Green; leaves Green. 
No. 3, Hazee Nut — Open shells wash lightly in Yel- 
low Green; a little Blue in the lightest one, shade with 
Brown Green. Nut washed in Yellow Brown; shade in 
Yellow Red and Hair Brown. Closed nut of Yellow Brown, 
shaded with Hair Brown. Short leaf of Green ; long one of 
Brown. 
No. 4, Acorn — Wash nut and shell with Yellow Brown. 
Shade nut with Hair Brown; shell in Finishing Brown; 
leaf under nut, Red; one under shell, Green. 
No. 5, Pine Cone — Paint spikes first with Brown Green 
and Dark Green; end spikes of Yellow Green; shadowy ones 
of Grey. Wash lightest tones on cones with a light tone of 
deep Blue Green ; finish wash with Yellow Brown and shade 
darkest side with Hair Brown. Accent shells with Yellow 
Brown on light side, and Hair Brown on dark side. 
No. 6, Chestnut Burr — Open burr is washed with 
Yellow shaded with Yellow Brown, a touch of Yellow Red, 
and Brown Green. Where the spikes join the burrs, they 
are Hair Brown, but shade into Green at the ends. Nut 
is washed with Yellow Brown shaded with Hair Brown. 
The closed burr is washed in Yellow Green and spikes on 
dark side of Brown Green and Dark Green mixed. 
All stems outlining panels and otherwise, are a wash of 
Yellow Brown shaded with Hair Brown with the darkest 
touches of Finishing Brown. 
Second Working — Tint the entire plate with Ivory 
which is four parts Lemon Yellow, one part Black and two 
parts Yellow Brown. Apply with oil; pad evenly. Should 
the background in the panels need strengthening in the 
darkest part, block the color on again and pad with wet pad. 
Re-wash and strengthen shadows on leaves, accenting veins 
and edges with a fine liner and color mixed in brush with 
turpentine. With a pointed brush, pick out sharp high- 
lights; accent stems with Hair Brown and Finishing Brown 
in the same manner as leaves. Wash, shade and accent 
burrs, shells and nuts with same colors as first working, 
picking out sharp high-lights the last thing which can be 
done with the handle of the brush shaped flat. 
SALVIA 
Mary Burnett 
THE flowers of the Salvia are a vivid red. The stems of 
flowers are also red, but a little more brown in tone. 
The small leaves are a light green but as they grow larger 
become darker in tone. The stems have a purple tone. 
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SALVIA— MARY BURNETT 
