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Ordering Colour: Albert Henry Munsell (1858-1918)

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How he became interested in colour, and how he developed his colour system – which remains one of the most widely-used colour ordering systems.

June 28, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Ordering Colour: before the 20th century

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A brief look at the history of colour ordering, and colour systems, as an introduction to the pioneering work of Albert Henry Munsell.

June 27, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

From pigment to painting: 7 Summary and conclusion

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Painting is about form, light, and colour. Here is a short summary of the practical points developed in the previous articles on colour.

March 29, 2015 Painting

From pigment to painting: 6 Pigments, the purpose in paint

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How pigments work, and some of their practical problems.

March 27, 2015 Painting

From pigment to painting: 5 Chroma, chromatic scales

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Chroma is hard to separate from lightness. An important painting point is that mixing paints cannot increase chroma. Instead it tends to reduce it towards muddy grey.

March 23, 2015 Painting

From pigment to painting: 4 Hue, I can sing a Rainbow

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Although lightness and chroma can usually be approached successfully using methodical approaches, long experience has shown that hue is much more hit or miss. Developing a good ‘eye’ for colours is generally much more important.

March 18, 2015 Painting

From pigment to painting: 3 Lightness, 50 shades of grey

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Lightness is key to the depiction of materials, textures, edges, and form. Illusions can confound the viewer, and it is vital to map the lightness of your motif to that of your painting.

March 12, 2015 Painting

From pigment to painting: 2 Let there be lightness, hue, and chroma

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What do we actually perceive of colour?

March 10, 2015 Painting

From pigment to painting: 1 Why we treat colour the wrong way

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If we are to understand colour in painting, to comprehend how to apply pigment to depict what we see, we first need to understand our perception of colour.

March 6, 2015 Painting

Favourite Paintings 10: Paul Signac, Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde (La Bonne-Mère), Marseille, 1905-6

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A luminous painting of the port of Marseille in dawn light, looking up towards the ‘Good Mother’ church, marks the height of both Neo-Impressionism and Fauvism.

March 2, 2015 Painting
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