Quotation from: General Science

Written by: Bertha M. Clark


If it were not that colors can be compounded, we should be limited in
hue and shade to the seven spectral colors; the wealth and beauty of
color in nature, art, and commerce would be unknown; the flowers with
their thousands of hues would have a poverty of color undreamed of;
art would lose its magenta, its lilac, its olive, its lavender, and
would have to work its wonders with the spectral colors alone. By
compounding various colors in different proportions, new colors can be
formed to give freshness and variety. If one third of the rotating
disk is painted blue, and the remainder white, the result is lavender;
if fifteen parts of white, four parts of red, and one part of blue are
arranged on the disk, the result is lilac. Olive is obtained from a
combination of two parts green, one part red, and one part black; and
the soft rich shades of brown are all due to different mixtures of
black, red, orange, or yellow.

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