at home would stare!) is a simple, sober, mixed-up tint, and apparently,
like your skies, completed while wet. No scratchings, no hatchings, no
scumbling nor multiplicity of repetitions--no ultramarine lakes nor
vermilions--not even a mark of the brush visible; all seemed melted in
the fat and glowing mass, solid yet transparent, giving the nearest
approach to life that the painter's art has ever yet reached.

_Wilkie._


CXLVI

In painting, get the main tones first. Do not forget that white by
itself should be used very sparingly; to make anything of a beautiful
colour, accentuate the tones clearly, lay them fresh and in facets; no
compromise with ambiguous and false tones; colour in nature is a mixture
of single tones adapted to one another.

_Chassériau._


CXLVII

A thing to remember always: avoid greenish tones.

_Chassériau._


CXLVIII