We now come to painting. Begin on porcelain by a plate, and on earthenware by a tile. If the pupil has had no practice either in water colors or in oils—if, in a word, has no idea as yet of setting a palette, undertake first a monochrome, that is to say, a painting done with one color only, heightened by one or two other tones.
Monochromes are made in the following tints: Grisailles, green, blue-green, blue, violet of iron, carmine, purple capucine red, sepia, red brown, bitumen.
Deep red brown and violet of iron are the two colors easiest to be used.
Grisaille Monochrome: Light grey No. 1, touched up with brown grey.
Greys Nos. 1 and 2; mix a little carmine No. 1 to warm up the tints.
On porcelain the bodies of cupids are often done in grisaille, with a little carmine at the extremities.
Green—Emerald-stone green and deep green.
Blue-green—Blue-green, touched up with the same color.
Blue—Deep ultramarine; dark blue; permanent white. Or common blue, shaded with itself; any other blue would spoil it.