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more blue, the same method already described to make these first four, will
serve to make all others.
Pink or Rose Colour.
These tints are also made exactly in the same manner as the blue, therefore
compare the colour you have rubbed off the cake in the dish, with No. 4,
and if that is of the full colour, you have only to add a little water, to
make each of the other three tints, in the same manner as directed to make
the blues.
Purples.
In order to make the purples, wash your pencils quite clean, and wipe them
dry: with a clean pallet, take a clean pencil, and with it take a little
of the blue, and put it on the pallet, and with another clean pencil take
a little lake, and put that on the pallet, each by themselves; then get a
third pencil, and take a little of the lake and blue that is on the pallet,
and mix them together on another part of the pallet, and by mixing them well
together, you will find them produce a purple; take a stroke on your paper,
and compare it with your purple tints, and see which of them it is most like;
if it be too light for any of the darkest tints, you have only to add more
blue and lake; but as purples are composed of two distinct colours, there
is more difficulty in finding the exact tints; therefore I have made two
distinct sets of purple, one with more lake in, and the other with more of
the blue; and by
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