Grass is washed with a mixture of burnt sienna, indigo, and gamboge; that in shadow has more indigo. Grass and bushes may be brought out by a tint of gamboge; distances may be heightened by lake.
Hills, retiring.—Tint the whole with weak blue; then the nearer ones with indigo and lake; add a little gamboge to the next, keeping one subordinate to the other; the most distant being lost in the aerial tints.
Land, distant.—Ultramarine and lake. Ground near is tinted with ochre.
Road and Paths.—A mixture of lake, burnt umber, and burnt sienna.
It may be tinted with ochre.
Smoke.—Lake and indigo.
Trees, distant.—Ultramarine, with a wash of indigo, gamboge, and burnt sienna, tinted with gray. The middle trees have a thin wash of burnt sienna and gamboge. Nearer trees a wash of burnt sienna, indigo, and gamboge. In the shadows more indigo is used.
Opposing masses of trees are tinted with sepia and indigo.
Windows.—Indigo and burnt umber.
559. POTICHOMANIE
This elegant accomplishment, which has become so extremely popular and fashionable, promises not only to supercede altogether many of those accomplishments which have hitherto absorbed the attention of our fair countrywomen, but to rank among the fine arts.