The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and Their Applications to the Arts: Including Painting, Interior Decoration, Tapestries, Carpets, Mosaics, Coloured Glazing, Paper-staining, Calico-printing, Letterpress Printing, Map-colouring, Dress, Landscape and Flower Gardening, EtcHenry G. Bohn, 1860 - 465 pages |
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Page xxxii
... deep tones shades , but very often the word hues , is indiscriminately applied to those modifications of a colour . Greater precision , therefore , in the language of colours , will be obtained by limiting the term tones to the ...
... deep tones shades , but very often the word hues , is indiscriminately applied to those modifications of a colour . Greater precision , therefore , in the language of colours , will be obtained by limiting the term tones to the ...
Page xxxiii
... deep Green . The deep and broken tones of the luminous scale become sombre colours , and the light tones of blue and violet become luminous colours . Orange is the only secondary colour which cannot become cold , because it is composed ...
... deep Green . The deep and broken tones of the luminous scale become sombre colours , and the light tones of blue and violet become luminous colours . Orange is the only secondary colour which cannot become cold , because it is composed ...
Page xxxv
... deep tone deeper , commencing at the line of contact , where it will be greatest , and gradually diminishing as it recedes from it : this is contrast of tone . Secondly , the colour of the different stripes will appear changed , each ...
... deep tone deeper , commencing at the line of contact , where it will be greatest , and gradually diminishing as it recedes from it : this is contrast of tone . Secondly , the colour of the different stripes will appear changed , each ...
Page xxxvi
... deep blue , this latter will appear green rather than violet , a result the reverse of that presented by light blue . Whenever there is a great difference between two contiguous colours , the difference is rendered more apparent by ...
... deep blue , this latter will appear green rather than violet , a result the reverse of that presented by light blue . Whenever there is a great difference between two contiguous colours , the difference is rendered more apparent by ...
Page xl
... deep indigo - blue , and an equally deep red , gain by contact : the blue by losing violet , will become pure blue ; the red , acquiring orange , will become brighter . But if we take light tones of the same scales , the blue may become ...
... deep indigo - blue , and an equally deep red , gain by contact : the blue by losing violet , will become pure blue ; the red , acquiring orange , will become brighter . But if we take light tones of the same scales , the blue may become ...
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aerial perspective agreeable artist association assortment White band BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY binary assortments Black Blue and Violet border brilliant CHAPTER chiar'oscuro coloured light coloured materials coloured objects coloured rays complementary colour complexion contrast of colours contrast of tone different colours drapery employed example favourable flat tints flowers furniture glass GOBELINS TAPESTRY Green Green threads Greenish-Yellow hangings harmony of analogy harmony of contrast height of tone hues imitation incline Indigo inferior intensity Jasminum fruticans Laburnum latter law of contrast LAW OF SIMULTANEOUS less less Brown light tones Lilac luminous colours manner mixture neutralise normal tone observations Orange Orange colour Orange-Yellow painter painting paper patterns perceive picture Pink placed plants portion preceding present principle Prunus mahaleb pure colour rays falling reflected remark render represent result retina rose SAVONNERIE CARPETS scale simple colours simultaneous contrast sombre colours spectator stripes stuff surface tion trast Violet wainscoting White ground white light