taken the place of guess-work and blundering.

Thus, before reaching the secondary school, they are put in possession
of the color faculty by a system and notation similar to that which was
devised centuries ago for the musical sense. No system, however logical,
will produce the artist, but every artist needs some systematic training
at the outset, and this simple method by measured scales is believed to
be the best yet devised.

[Illustration: PLATE 2.
Copyright 1907 by A. H. Munsell]

[Illustration: PLATE 3.
Copyright 1907 by A. H. Munsell]

Each example on this plate may be made the basis of many variants, by
small changes in the color steps, as suggested in the text, and further
elaborated in Chapter VI. Indeed, the studies reproduced on Plates II.
and III. are but a handful among hundreds of pleasing results produced
in a single school.[26]

1. Pattern. Purple and green: the two united and thinned with water
will give the ground. Vary with any other color pair.

2. Pattern. Figure in middle red, with darker blue-green accent.
Ground of middle yellow, grayed with slight addition of the red and
green. Vary with purple in place of blue-green.

3. Japanese teapot. Middle red, with background of lighter yellow
and foreground of grayed middle yellow.

4. Variant on No. 3. Middle yellow, with slight addition of green.
Foreground the same, with more red, and background of middle gray.

5. Group. Background of yellow-red, lighter vase in yellow-green,
and darker vase of green, with slight addition of black. Vary by
inversion of the colors in ground and darker vase.

6. Wall decoration. Frieze pattern made of cat-tails and
leaves,--the leaves of blue-green with black, tails of yellow-red
with black, and ground of the two colors united and thinned with
water. Wall of blue-green, slightly grayed by additions of the two
colors in the frieze. Dado could be a match of the cat-tails
slightly grayer. _See Fig. 23, page 82._

7. Group. Foreground in purple-blue, grayed with black. Vase of
purple-red, and background in lighter yellow-red, grayed.

For analysis of the groups and means of recording them, see Chapter III.

[Footnote 26: The Pope School, Somerville, Mass.]

CHAPTER V.

A PIGMENT COLOR SPHERE.[27]

+How to make a color sphere with pigments.+

(102) The preceding chapters have built up an ideal color solid, in
which every sensation of color f