Paint & Colour Mixing / A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds

by Arthur Seymour Jennings

Dark Slate.

—This is simply mineral or other black added to white. The admixture under “Black Slate” would answer.

Deep Lead.

—Black, a little bright blue, and Indian red mixed with white lead produces this colour.

French Gray.

—This can be made by tinting white with a little ivory or drop black and adding a little carmine or crimson lake and ultramarine. This produces a very slight violet tinge. White tinted with a little ultramarine and Venetian red also gives a good French gray. Celestial blue or cobalt may be used instead of the ultramarine if desired.

Granite.

—French ochre and lamp black added to white lead produce this colour.

Graystone.

—Mix five parts of black with three of white and three of blue and add a little red.