lue and green crayons for back and foreground.
Vary by using the two opposites of any color chosen for the dish and
omitting the two neighboring colors. See No. 4.
3. Hiawatha's canoe. Yellow crayon, with rim and name in green. Vary
color of canoe, keeping the rim a neighboring color. See No. 4.
4. Color-circle. Gray crayon for centre, and five crayons spaced
equidistant. This gives the invariable order, red, yellow, green,
blue, purple. _Never use all five in a single design._ Either use
a color and its two neighbors or a color and its two opposites. By
mingling touches of any two neighbors, the intermediates are made
and named yellow-red (orange), green-yellow, blue-green, purple-blue
(violet), and red-purple. Abbreviated, the circle reads R, YR, Y,
GY, G, BG, B, PB, P, RP.
5. Rosette. Red cross in centre, green leaves: blue field, black
outline. Vary as in No. 2.
6. Rosette. Green centre and edge of leaves, purple field and black
accents. Vary color of centre, keeping field two colors distant.
7. Plaid. Use any three crayons with black. Vary the trio.
8. Folding screen. Yellow field (lightly applied), green and black
edge. Make lighter and darker values of each color, and arrange in
scales graded from black to white.
9. Rug. Light red field with solid red centre, border pattern and
edges of gray. This is called self-color. Change to each of the
crayons.
10. Rug. Light yellow field and solid centre, with purple and black
in border design. Vary by change of ground, keeping design two
colors distant and darkened with black.
11. Lattice. Yellow with black: alternate green and blue lozenges.
Vary by keeping the lozenges of two neighboring colors, but one
color removed from that of the lattice.
For principles involved in these color groups, see Chapter III.
PLATE III.
COLOR STUDIES WITH TUNED WATER COLORS IN THE UPPER GRADES.
Previous work with measured scales, made by the tuned crayons and tested
by reference to the color sphere, have so trained the color judgment
that children may now be trusted with more flexible material. They have
memorized the equable degrees of color on the equator of the sphere, and
found how lighter colors may balance darker colors, how small areas of
stronger chroma may be balanced by larger masses of weaker chroma, and
in general gained a disciplined color sense. Definite impressions and
clear thinking have
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