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COLOR MIXING
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may easily be remedied by adding more blue. Some painters add ivory black and a little chrome yellow to carmine.

Mexican Red. Mix one part of red lead with four parts of Venetian red.

Mikado. Three parts of blue and seven of red, mixed with a little white, give this purplish red shade.

Moorish Red. Mix together three parts of vermilion and one part of rose pink.

Mulberry. This is a very dark purple obtained by adding a little blue and just a tinge of red to black.

Old Rose. Tint white lead with French ochre, Indian red and lamp black, or Venetian red and a very little lamp black may be used if desired.

Opaque Pink. Tint white lead with red lead.

Opera Pink. Tint white lead with a mixture of five parts of vermilion and one part of medium chrome green.

Oriental Red. Mix one part of red lead with two parts of Indian red.

Orange Scarlet. This color may be obtained by adding two parts of orange lead to one part of white lead.

Orange Vermilion. Orange lead comes nearest to this color. The tone may be made by adding chrome to vermilion.

Peach Bloom. This is a mixture of white lead and Venetian red. Or it may be produced by adding sufficient Indian red to white lead to give a warm tint and mixing it with equal proportions of white lead, lemon chrome yellow, ultramarine blue and light Indian red. Or a mixture of three parts of Indian red with seventeen parts of white is sometimes used.

Pink. White lead tinted with orange lead gives a bright pink.

Plum. Mix with equal parts of white lead. Indian red and ultramarine blue in the proportion of two parts of lead to one of each of the other colors. This makes a dark plum that is only suitable for inside work. If a light