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has the advantage of being practical, and of being directed by common sense as well as by artistic expediency – as much of his out-of-door work is intended to be used for reference when he is painting pictures in his studio it is indispensable that it should be as accurate as possible in its presentation of nature's realities.

The colours he generally uses are cobalt, ceruleum, indigo, ultramarine ash, yellow ochre, raw sienna, lemon yellow, aureolin, cadmium No. 2, cadmium orange, light red, vermilion, rose madder, pink madder, brown madder, raw umber, burnt sienna, and charcoal grey; and occasionally French blue, real ultramarine, cobalt green, cobalt violet, and Vandyke brown.