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Colour Notes 4: Under no illusions

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A journey through some visual illusions show how a simple physical concept of human colour vision doesn’t work. It’s all about perception, not physics.

May 10, 2022 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Colour Notes 3: Colour temperature and constancy

“A human observer is able to recognise the colour of objects irrespective of the light used to illuminate the objects.” “Colour constancy does not exist in humans.” Which is right?

May 3, 2022 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Colour Notes 1: Red and green should never be seen

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It was part of the folklore of women’s fashion in the 20th century, but had been embraced by the French Impressionists. Here’s why and how.

April 19, 2022 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Colour Notes: Introduction, what we see

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What do paintings look like to someone with deuteranopia? Why do great paintings ‘draw’ the eye? Do we see the colours the artist intended? And how many words for blue are in Ukrainian?

April 14, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Art and Science: 9 Seurat’s Neo-Impressionism

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With its origins in the old rivalry between form and colour, Divisionism was the concept of scientific painting in the mind of Georges Seurat.

February 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: Introduction to a new series

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From linear perspective projection, synthetic pigments like Prussian Blue, and colour theory, to the first new painting medium since oils, science and painting have developed together.

December 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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

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