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 *Black, green-yellow, and the light tones of blue, violet-bine, bine-violet, violet, purple-violet, and purple.
 * Black, yellow-green, and the light tones of violet-bine, blue-violet, violet, purple-violet, purple, red-purple, and purple-red.
 * Black, red and green-gray.
 * Black, red and blue-gray.
 * Black, orange-red and green-gray.
 * Black, orange-red and blue-gray.
 * Black, light green and purple-gray.
 * Black, light green and red-gray.
 * Black, light bine and yellow-gray.

Gray will form a good combination with any two colors which are complementary or nearly so. It is the happy medium between black and white. Any color seen upon a black ground will appear paler; when seen upon a white ground it will appear deeper; but when seen upon a gray ground it will appear at its true value. For example see Figs. 399 and 400, on Plate 87.

In forming combinations of three different colors, it is generally most effective to combine a full-color, a half-tone, and a tint; or a deep-shade, a full-color, and a half-tone. The reason is, that in such combinations we have harmony of contrast as well as harmony of colors.

Plates 33 to 38, inclusive, show a variety of fine two-color combinations which belong to the harmony of distant colors.

Plate 33.—Fig. 245 on this plate is a combination of one of the dark tones of orange and a light green-blue. Fig. 246 is composed of red-gray and a sea-green tint. Fig. 247 is composed of a light brown and a sea-green tint. Fig. 248 is composed of