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The painter's palette; a theory of tone relations, an instrument of expression (1919)

Ross, Denman Waldo, 1853-1935 · Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Co. · leaf 45

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THE PAINTER’S PALETTE 29 Mixing the tones on vertical and diagonal as well as on hori- zontal lines and in triads, these palettes of eight tones each, four of them being repeated, will serve the painter, for most purposes, quite as well as Palettes I H and I C, with fourteen tones each, seven of… … LD [Elk] Blk IBlk] In using Palette III H, the painter will find light greens between Blue and Yellow. He can warm them by adding more or less of the Orange, or he can cool them by going up to the Violet. He will find dark greens between Yellow-Green, Orange and Blue. For flesh tones in light he…

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