Identifier: colorscoloringin00kera Title: Colors and coloring in china painting. Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Keramic Supply Co. (Indianapolis, Ind.) Subjects: China painting--Catalogs Colors Trade catalogs--China painting Publisher: Keramic Supply Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Contributing Library: Winterthur Museum Library Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: PEACH BLOSSOM PANSY PURPLE ■ g JLONO FLESH ORANGE RED JRUNETTE FLESH NASTURTIUM RED Text Appearing After Image: AMERICAN BEAUTY DEEP VIOLET POMPADOUR RtD THE ABOVE PRINTS REPRESENT OUR CHINA COLORS AS ACCURATELY AS 1IS POSSIBLE TO SHOW THEM Colors and Coloring in China Painting 25 be applied thinner, and if deep coloring is desired the paint must be ap-plied heavily. After painting, if the color fires out too light, it should be strength-ened by washing over with some of the pure color. If the work in gen-eral is pale or dull it can be brightened by strengthening the shadowsand half-tones, and finally washing in the local color. As a rule, shadowsshould be painted darker than they are to be when fired, as dark colorslose more in proportion than light colors in firing. When a color is toodark it may be corrected by washing over it a contrasting color. For in-stance, if the pupil of an eye has been made a deep black, it will looklike a staring spot and spoil the effect of the painting, but a wash ofyellow ochre or yellow brown over the spot will modify the intense black-ness by lowering the tone. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.