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"The three colours of each genus, united or compounded in such subordination that neither of them predominate to the eye, constitute the reactive, or neutral colours, of which black and white are the opposed extremes, and grays their intermediates."

"By mixing his colours with white, the artist obtains his tints; by mixing colours with colours, he obtained, hues; and by mixing colours or tints with black, he gets shades."

Of the various combinations of black, those in which yellow, orange, or citrine predominates, have obtained the name of brown. When the compounds with black are of a [[strikethrough]] permanent [[/strikethrough]] predominant red, purple, or russet hue, they are termed chocolate, marronette, and when the combinations with black have a predominating hue of blue, green or olive, they are termed slate gray +c."  Field

Atmospheric effects.

Veronese painted with astonishing lightness + certainty of hand; + his colouring was always clear + powerful. Like Titian at his best period, he preferred a full display of light, + avoided deep shadow; notwithstanding which, his figures possess a striking degree of relief. All the parts of a healthy body, when which sunshine falls directly, have a reddish-yellow hue, which is precisely that which, while it excites the eye, produces the most grateful impression upon that organ. Hence, whatever parts are so illuminated + coloured, acquired relief, + seem to project; whilst others, which do not receive the rays of light directly, but are situated obliquely to, or turned from them, are lighted by reflection from the surfaces of other objects, or by the light received from the atmosphere; and these reflexes tinge the parts on which they fall, with the hues of the surfaces they are bound from. As such lights are of a bluish cast when they are derived from the atmosphere, all objects that are partially lighted, or surfaces not immediately imposed to the sun, partake of this list, + this", when mixed with the carnation of the flesh producers a light grayish green, or purplish tint. But as this latter is of a weaker tone than the other, and therefore makes its impression on the eye, such parts seem to retire, and