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Rh Carmine Paste. A magnificent color, has great power, and is a fine glazing color. This, also, only requires to be kept damp, as it is sold ready for use. It need not be put on the palette till required.

Rose Pink. A useful color, sold in soft lumps, but requires grinding for use.

Brown Lake. A good color, requires grinding.

Burnt Sienna. A fine color, requires most careful grinding. This is a good glazing color.

Vandyke Brown. A fine useful color, is a good glazing one, requires most careful grinding.

Raw Umber. A useful color, requires grinding.

Burnt Umber. A good color, requires grinding, and is a good glazing color.

Drop Black. A very useful color, requires grinding.

Blue Black. Is also useful, requires grinding.

Indigo. A very useful color, very hard, requires to be broken up and steeped in boiling water for some time, then ground up in the usual way. A good glazing color.

German Ultramarine. A good blue, sold in powder, and only requires to be plunged in water.

Prussian Blue. A powerful blue, hitherto scarcely used in distemper, but likely to be of much use. Requires good grinding.

Azure Blue. A fine, useful blue, better than German ultramarine for most purposes. A powder color and has only to be plunged in water.

Blue Verditer. A fine night color, but of a sandy nature, and very difficult to work with. A powder color and requires only water put to it for use.

Dark Green Lake. A most powerful green and very useful. Requires grinding for use.

Light Green Lake. The same as the above, only much lighter.

Emerald Green. A very bright green and should be sparingly used. Requires no grinding, as it is in powder.