A background of such mixed colors is treated in the following way:
Half closing the eyes, a general effect of color is obtained, in which for the moment the details of the pattern are obscured. We therefore lay in a first painting of warm gray with a pervading feeling of red and yellow, For this, use raw umber, white, permanent blue, light red, yellow ochre, madder lake and ivory black.
Take out some of each color on the palette, and with the knife, rub them together a little, but not in one dead mass of uniform tone.
With a large bristle brush take up as much of this mixture as possible, using the brush somewhat in the manner of a shovel, and transfer it to the canvas, having put in a few drops of turpentine. Use the brush in short, rather quick strokes, not all in the same direction, but varying the touch agreeably, yet always so that the brush marks will not catch the light. Proceed in this way until the background is covered with a gray tone, which suggests the general effect of the stuff, yet is without actual detail of any kind.
While drying, lay in the tablecloth. For this dark sapphire blue mix Ant, werp blue, silver white, and very little light cadmium, madder lake, ivory black and a little raw umber.
Plush in this light will present almost one uniform tone of dark rich blue, with here and there soft silvery lights broken upon it. In the shadows thrown by the objects, this general tone becomes darker and warmer.
With a smaller bristle brush than that used for the background, the tablecloth is laid in, using the brush in very much the same way as before, yet working more carefully so as to preserve the drawing of the objects upon the table.
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