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TREATMENT FOR STUDY OF HOPS 
Marshal Fry 
THIS design is most suitable for a beer stein, tankard, or any 
object which will admit of a dark color scheme. The 
colors needed are Moss, Royal, Brown, Russian and Shading 
Greens, Copenhagen Blue, Violet No. 2, Yellow Brown, Albert 
Yellow, and Pompadour. 
The first painting should be simple and crisp, using Moss 
and Royal Greens, and Albert Yellow for the lightest hops, 
and Shading and Brown Greens and Copenhagen Blue for the 
otheis. Get the background going, for good effects can be 
obtained by painting into the wet tint, and also by wiping out 
lights with a moist brush. Copenhagen Blue, Brown, Shading 
and Russian Greens are used in the background. 
About the same colors are used in the second paint- 
ing, possibly warmer colors than before, more Albert 
Yellow, Yellow Brown and Pompadour. The prominent 
hops should be brought out by crisp accents of Royal 
and Brown Greens, and washes of Moss Green and Albert 
Yellow. The less prominent and suggested ones should 
be washed over with the background colors, some of them 
to be almost lost in it. If Belleek ware is used, substitute a 
mixture of Apple Green and Albert Yellow for the Moss 
Green, as the latter is apt to fire brown on that ware. 
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THE STUDY OF HOPS IN WATER COLOR 
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls 
THE shape of the accompanying study of hops will hardly 
meet the wants of those who are seeking for a conven- 
tional flower study, but with a little clever rearranging or selec- 
tion they may find hints for decorating something they wish to 
beautify. The color scheme is beautifully simple, and yet rev- 
elling in different tones of green, the cool shades balancing 
the warm and the proportions of dark and light making a pleas- 
ant contrast. The student is strongly recommended to soak 
the paper before placing it on a piece of wet blotting paper or 
oil cloth over a drawing board. The original study is so full 
of quality that unless the water color is all kept wet it would 
hardly give the result desired. The colors to use are : Hooker's 
Green Nos. I and 2, Antwerp Blue, Raw Sienna, Aligarin 
Crimson, Lemon Yellow, Burnt Sienna and Indigo. Paint in 
the general scheme of the background, massing the light and 
the dark and breaking the warm colors in the centre ; sponge 
out the lights where the brightest hops are and do not work 
into them with sharp crisp touches until the paper begins to 
dry a little. Although the study is full of mystery the touches 
throughout are sharp and direct. Observe the make of the 
leaf and the stems. There is nothing woolly in the handling. 
If necessary a little Chinese White may be used with the color 
towards the last, but very little. 
