. The air brush in photography, incorporating a progressive series of lessons . ash-ing one color over another, than by mixing the colors. For instance,one can first apply a wash of deep scarlet and over this a dark greenand the result will be a black, thus it becomes easily seen that onecan easily change any tint to a darker one, but cannot change thedark tint to a light one. Through error at sometime or other one might possibly color aladys hair red when it should have been a brown or black. As willbe readily seen this change can be easily accomplished, but it cannotbe changed to a blonde wi
. The air brush in photography, incorporating a progressive series of lessons . ash-ing one color over another, than by mixing the colors. For instance,one can first apply a wash of deep scarlet and over this a dark greenand the result will be a black, thus it becomes easily seen that onecan easily change any tint to a darker one, but cannot change thedark tint to a light one. Through error at sometime or other one might possibly color aladys hair red when it should have been a brown or black. As willbe readily seen this change can be easily accomplished, but it cannotbe changed to a blonde with transparent color. If the hair by mis-take has been red it can be changed to brown by washing over itwith dark green, at first the result will be a brown, but if the greenis applied in excess the tint obtained will be black. One can modify almost any tint of draperies with the exceptionof making them a lighter hue than that appKed or contained in thephotograph itself. For laces one should give a dilute wash of gold, shading thedraperies with neutral tint or blue gray. 137. Chapter VIColoring Backgrounds and Accessories HIS is another part of the work that requires delicate han-dling- as the beginner almost invariably has a tendency tooverdo the coloring. This over-coloring must be avoidedas one should color very weak and exceptionally even. In coloring the background and accessories be verycareful so as not to overlap onto the figure as it will proveruinous, and always bear in mind that the backgroundshould be colored last of all. Color the background with boldness and apply wash after washuntil the desired tone and blending has been obtained. In the backgrounds of portraits of young people it is well to usea weak wash of blue, purple or gray. It isnt necessary to extendthe color over the entire ground when the photo is vignetted butsimply apply around the shoulders and head, using, if one wishes, thezig-zag points as shown elsewhere in these pages in black and whiteor blend
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