Hints for painters, decorators, and paper-hangers. / Being a selection of useful rules, data, memoranda, methods, and suggestions for house, ship and furniture painting, paper-hanging, gilding, color mixing, and other matters useful and instructive to painters and decorators. Prepared with special reference to the wants of amateurs

by An Old Hand

Green, Grass.—Yellow pink with verdigris.

Green, Pea.—White lead and chrome or Paris green.

Green, Dark.—Black and chrome green.

Green, Olive.—Prussian blue and French yellow; mix to the tints required. This is a cheap and handsome color for outside work, such as doors, carts, wagons, railway cars, etc.

Jonquil.—Yellow, pink and white lead. This color is only for distemper.

Lead.—Prussian blue and white, with a light shade of white.

Olive.—For distemper, use indigo and yellow pink mixed with whiting or white lead powder.

Olive.—Red, green, or black and yellow.

Pearl.—White lead, Prussian blue and red.

Purple.—Dark red mixed with violet.