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Title: The theory and practice of landscape painting in water-colours. Illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and numerous woodcuts
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Barnard, George, 1807-1890
Subjects: Landscape painting Watercolor painting
Publisher: London : George Routledge & Sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ention should be given to its characteristics. When consideringthe green of a landscape, it must be remembered that its general hue is notthe bright decided colour, compounded of yellow and blue, in the proportionof 3 and 8, which forms what may be called a true green ; it must rather bedescribed as either a mixture of citrine with blue or gray, or a compound ofyellow, orange, and blue. Even in this modified state, green is subject tomeat changes. In its general character it is cool and retiring, reflecting THE HARMONY AND NATURAL CONTRASTS OF COLOURS. 33 but little light, and ajmearing to belong more to the shadows than thelight; and thus its individuality is soon lost in the distance, where itchanges into blue or bluish gray. As this colour presents the greatestdiscord to blue, in order to produce a good effect, a harmonising warmpurple haze, the reddish gray of the atmosphere, or the same tint ofclouds, is continually required to assimilate its masses with the azureblue of the sky.
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