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

Lemon.

—For this colour lemon chrome yellow is used alone, but the tint may be made by using white lead for a base and adding medium chrome yellow until the desired tint is obtained. The tint that is usually preferred is obtained by mixing five parts of chrome to two parts of white lead, and adding a little green. However, lemon chrome yellow purchased ready made is the best.

Light Buff.

—A little yellow ochre added to white lead gives a good buff colour, the tint varying with the quantity of ochre.

Light Deck.

—This colour may be produced by mixing medium and lemon chrome yellow with white.

Light Stone.

—Tint white lead with French ochre and lamp black.

Lemon Yellow.

—This is also called lemon chrome, and is the palest shade of lemon chrome yellow. It is very useful for preparing the lighter shades of yellow, and may be imitated by adding cadmium yellow to zinc white.