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

Olive Gray.

—Three parts of lamp black, one part chrome green, with about forty times the quantity of white lead, will give this colour.

Opal Gray.

—One part of burnt sienna, two parts of cobalt blue, and thirty parts of zinc white.

Payne’s Gray.

—Is an artist’s colour, which may be described as a gray having a lilac tinge.

Pearl.

—This is the same as French grey, but is much lighter.

Pearl Gray.

—Forty parts white lead, five parts of vermilion and one part of deep chrome green. Some decorators tint white lead with lamp black and call that pearl gray. Strictly speaking, however, it should be called pearl grey, there being no colour present. Six parts of white lead, two parts of Venetian red, and one part of lamp black gives a somewhat dark pearl gray, but a lighter tint may easily be obtained by adding more lead. Ivory black answers equally as well as lamp black.