Comments on: Color Exploration: What You Can Learn from the Great Painters

By: dorie

dorie — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:23:26 +0000

oh-that looks like so much fun. it’s the answer to the missing color!

By: Nipomo

Nipomo — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:40:26 +0000

This is a valuable exercise, but something more to consider is the color quality of the reproduction you are using. Good to try and see all the colors that make up a great picture and how a little of something or something kind of icky on its own makes a big difference to the whole, but keep in the back of your mind a healthy skepticism about the colors that are in the reproduction. If your intuition tells you the colors don’t quite go together or aren’t rich enough, trust yourself because the reproduction could be quite off.

A fun experiment might be if you have a big museum near by, find an art book picture of a picture in the museum or print one on your printer off the Internet and go compare the real thing to your reproduction. It might cause you in the future to use the reproduction as a reference but make your palette much richer.

By: Tisra

Tisra — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:24:27 +0000

Oooooh. I love this idea.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:43:06 +0000

Yes – That does look like a really valuable exercise — and fun too. I can see a whole series of little quilts inspired by the palettes of the great ones!

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:42:13 +0000

That’s a really fabulous idea, have never thought of it before but will definitely use that technique.

By: pantomime dame

pantomime dame — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:34:34 +0000

here is a really great interactive website to explore the concept. just when you think you are going in circles, you realize that there is a whole other spectrum that you stumble upon. go see what there is to see!

http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm

By: domesticali

domesticali — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:43:52 +0000

Wow, what a fascinating exercise. So often we look without seeing.