Turkeys.—Black, black and white mixed, shaded off to a white underneath; sprinkled and shaded with black.
558. LANDSCAPES IN WATER-COLOURS
Sketch the outlines faintly with a black-lead pencil. Then colour.
Colours.—The most useful are: lake, burnt ochre, gamboge, indigo, light red, sepia, Prussian blue, sienna, and burnt umber.
The gray colour is made of burnt umber, indigo, and lake; each rubbed separately in a saucer, and then mixed in a fourth saucer as to produce the exact colour—a warm gray. This is thinned for the light tints, as sky and distances. Deeper is to be used for the shadows and near parts, softening with water till the exact effect is produced.
Buildings are sometimes tinted with a mixture of lake and gamboge.
Burnt ochre is also used. The shadows have an excess of lake.
Breadths of Light are obtained by destroying the scattered lights with grays.
Clouds are produced by a thin mixture of indigo and lake. They should be tinted with sepia. The lower or horizontal clouds are tinged with ultramarine.
Figures are touched with lake and indigo.
Force is acquired by adding sepia to indigo, in the cold parts, and sepia with lake to the glowing parts.