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Mixing 2.5YR 1.5-4

Feb 28, 2024

I was so nervous...

Sep 22, 2023

How local color shifts as it moves from shadow into light

Sep 01, 2023

Hold still, this will only take a minute. "Nope!"

Aug 27, 2023

Painting Skin with Controlled Chromatic Veils

Aug 11, 2023

The Art & Science of Color Workshop

There are many persistent myths about color and paint mixing that, rather than improving the creativity of painters, hampers it. No other profession it's best to be ignorant of basic skills. Think dental surgery, and cooking.

The reason these beliefs are so long-lived is that humans lack the ability to identify and recall specific colors. Painters then use vague terms like warm/cool to describe colors that they are looking at or trying to mix.  I heard a painter I respect describe the skin color he was mixing in the vaguest imaginable terms: "It's a sorta pinkish yellowish brownish gray." That's pretty vague.

He knows what he means, but I wager that everyone who heard him say it has a different idea of it, and will end up mixing different colors. But what if there were an accurate, usable system for identifying and mixing the color we see and want to paint? 

There is, it's been in use for 100+ years. It's called Munsell Color.  [More]

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