Radford's cyclopedia of construction; carpentry, building and architecture. Based on the practical experience of a large staff of experts in actual constrcution work (1909)
Johnson, Alfred Sidney, 1860-, Radford, William A., 1865- · Chicago Radford Architectural Co · leaf 262
es should be PAINTING AND DECORATING 203 darker than the general wall-color. Fig. 8 showsa scheme tor coloring. Do not fritter time away in putting twentycolors and shades into one cornice; the eye can-not appreciate it, and the effect is lost. To ordi-nary view, it destroys the breadth of the… … Tig. 9. Illustrating How Color Affects Form. It is evident that (in Fig. 9) as the object must beto cause A to advance, it is here we must put the yellow,both from its position and from its form. On the con-trary, we place blue at C as the retiring color, and assist-ing the concavity of the…
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