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

Mahogany.

—Mix orange and yellow in equal proportions with five times the quantity of black.

Mast-coloured Paint.

—The following recipe gives good results. Mix twelve parts of genuine dry white lead with two parts of French ochre, two parts of grey barytes, and one part of genuine oxide of iron.

Nut Brown.

—Equal quantities of red and yellow mixed with ten times as much black will give this shade.

Old Wood.

—To get this shade mix one part of blue and red, two of orange and five of black.

Olive Brown

may be made by mixing three parts of burnt umber and one part of lemon chrome yellow; or another shade is given by mixing equal quantities of orange and green with about twelve times as much black. Some painters add lemon chrome yellow to raw umber for a base.