Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s2.90

v2.c78.s2.90

**Colours.**—After the sketch is laid out, colours take their turn. Śrīharṣa gives only four primary colours (8). As regards the variegated hue ‘citra-varṇa’, the mosaic floor that Srīharṣa mentions in VIII (9) satisfies it. According to Śrīharṣa propriety of colouring—colour to be laid in its proper place in a picture—is the first pre-requisite (10). That is, for the effect of one colour over the other, the contrast, the balance, the tone and such other details, it is an essential prescription. Touching and blending may be attended also in due course.