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

Chartreuse.

—This is a light yellowish green colour. Mix four of chrome yellow and five of chrome green, lightening up with white.

Chrome Green.

—This colour is bought ready made. To produce it by admixture, add Prussian blue to lemon chrome yellow in the proportion of about one part of blue to eight parts of yellow.

Eau de Nil.

—Tint white lead with medium chrome yellow, emerald green and a touch of Prussian blue.

Egyptian Green.

—Add two parts of raw umber and one part of lemon chrome yellow to white lead. Give the green tone to it by means of a little Prussian blue.

Elephant Green.

—A dark green, obtained by adding a little emerald green to black.