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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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h to do a great deal, it willbe well to keep down the cost of his outfit, so shall makesuggestions on that basis. Brushes should be of the kind mounted in tin. Get follow-ing sable brushes: No. i. No 2, No. 5, No. 7, No. 9; flatcamels hair brushes, No. 3 and No. 5. Paints had better be purchased in half pans, as the tubesare apt to dry up if kept too long after opening. Thosemade by Winsor & Newton are very satisfactory. I have alsoused with good results the German colors prepared by H.Schimcke & Co., of Dusseldorf, which cost only about halfas much as the first named. The trouble in using paints by different makers is thatwhile under the same names, they may be of different shades. It is not necessary to have a lot of colors on the start, asmore can be added if needed. If you want to color portraits,would recommend your reading No. 44, Vol. 4 of the Photo-Miniature; but if your work is to be on landscapes, you willneed the following: Orange; pink madder; permanent violet; ISO
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ACROSS CRESCENTA VALLEY. (The Kind to Color: Plenty of Snap and Harmonious Contrasts.)Illustrating Article Coloring Photographs, by Edgar A. Cohen. blue—cobalt (tube), permanent, Prussian; Chinese white(tube) ; gray—Paynes, charcoal; brown—raw umber, burntumber; red—-vermilion, Indian; yellow—raw sienna, burntsienna, Indian; green—Hookers No. i. Hookers No. 2, sap,English, gamboge, olive, lake. There is a multiplicity of other colors, some being opaquewhen transparency is necessary, others such as mauve andcrimson lake, which are beautiful while they last, but are tobe shunned because they will fade away in a year or so;

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