The house painter, or, Decorator's companion : being a complete treatise on the origin of colour, the laws of harmonious colouring, the manufacture of pigments, oils, and varnishes : and the art of house painting, graining, and marbling : to which is added, a history of the art in all ages (1841)
Higgins, W. Mullinger (William Mullinger) · London : Thomas Kelly · leaf 40
may in the same manner vary from that which is most yellow to that which is most blue. The more compound the colour in its formation, the greater will he the number of its hues. Although a variety of colours are made and used by painters, they may all he formed, and of any hue, tint, or shade, from… … From the union of the three primary colours in pairs, are produced three others, called secondaries, as shown in Fig. 2. The mixture of yellow and red gives orange ; of red and blue, purple ; and of blue and yellow, green ; the hue inclining to that one of its component colours, which happens to…
House painting · Graining · Marbling · Painting, Industrial
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