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Now concerning art. You need to study what color really is.
One of the main problems you're going to have is not with actual colors themselves but what they look like next to other colors. Plus your whites, your grays.
What you think is gray could actually be a dark yellow light or a light purple or a gray yellow light. But, you see, we're so used to living on a planet that has a yellow star. The sun is a yellow star. If you looked at the clouds recently, the clouds, for example, the shadow in the clouds may seem gray at first but if you realize, they're various tones and shades of purple; mauve and purple; violet.
Sometimes you can get a neat effect in your artwork by exaggerating the colors. Remember the colors that you see often do get exaggerated. That's what makes it so fascinating when people see these things.
But what if you're working on a work of art that doesn't imitate nature. Then what have you got? Sometimes you're in a situation where you have an abstract form, your color says something, you know? You may have a green that's toned down next to a bright yellow. Something like that.
But, basically, what you need to do, start out by giving your eyes a workout. Take a white object, look at it, why, you're seeing whites, grays, purples...
Links out:
The art web log table of contents
--Fine art, digital art, music, several voice introductions by me about my work, articles about my artwork and other topics such as sociology, the cosmos, economics, education, medicine, poetry, humor, something I call premonitions, and a series about covered bridges, all by yours truly, the webmaster, Paul A.L. Hall. There are feedback, a website search engine, and exhaustive contents pages. Plus my weblogs are on site, an art school and classes.
...start out by
giving your eyes a workout.
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You need to study what color really is.
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