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COLOUR finallv the pure red
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DIAGRAMS OF HARMONY.
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Imagine,
and the same variations of hue at the blue side also.
further, the green having ten hues extending towards the blue, and ten more stretch-
ing towards the yellow ; and the orange having ten hues towards the red, and ten towards the yellow the ten, thus •
—
in all cases I count the colour
from which we start as one of
:
Red
Purple
Bluo
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— and we shall have 54 colours and hues of colour.
Of each of these 54 colours
and hues imagine 10 degrees of depth, and we get 540 colours, hues,
tints, and
shades, all differing from one another to an obvious degree.
Mark this fact, that any colour, tint, hue, or shade of such a diagram has its complement in one other of the colours, tints, hues, or shades of the diagram, and that only two of this series of 540 are complementary to each other; thus, if you fix
on any one colour of the 540, there
is
but one colour in the whole that is
complementary to it, and it is complementary to but this one other colour.
The student will do well
and make a colour-diagram of
to try
this
kind,
of a simple character, say such as the following, only using pigments for
my
numbers ; but in doing so he must exercise the utmost care, in order that he secure
some degree of accuracy of tint or shade, and if he can call to his aid an experienced colourist it will be of great assistance to him. CO *T3
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