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You
will
find
that
this
experiment
wili
instruct you, not only in the principles of light
and shade, but also of colours; for that there is
a corresponding hue with respect to colours is
not to be disputed. In order to demonstrate
this, place in the ball which you have illuminated,
the prismatic colours, suiting their hues to those
of the tints. Yellow will answer to the focus of
illumination,
and
the
other
secondary
and
their proper places.
side of a group or
primary hues will fall info
Hence, on the enlightened
figure, you may lay yellow, orange, red, and then
violet, but never on the side where the light
recedes. On that side must qome the other
prismatic colours in their natural orcler. Yellow
must pass to green, the green to blue, and the
blue to purple. The primary colours of yellow,
orange, and red, are the Warm colours, and
belong to the illuminated side of objects; the
violet is the intermediate, and green, blue, and
purple are the cold colours, and Vbelong
retiring parts of your composition.
t0
the
cc OH
the
same
principle,
and
in
the
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order-,
must
be
placed the tints which
Compose