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Category: Tools and Techniques

  • ColorJack

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    Like many of the online interactive color visualization and color picking utilities, ColorJack offers multiple interfaces with different options and capabilities. The most interesting of these, and most popular of the ColorJack options, is their Color Sphere, or Color Theory Visualizer (image above, top). More than simply a color picker, this displays the secondary, tertiary…

  • Scientific Analysis of Rembrandt’s Techniques for Guiding the Eye

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    Artists have long known, whether by intuition or study, how to direct a viewer’s eye through a painting. It’s always interesting, though, when researchers attempt to codify and study these aspects of vision and perception in scientific experiment. Researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Vision Lab recently turned their attention to Rembrandt’s incisive and…

  • Master Artists’ Palettes

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    Writing in her blog on the Telegraph in an article titled Why preserve Van Gogh’s palette?, Lucy Davies points to some of the considerations for artists learning from the palettes of the masters, both in choice and arrangement of colors. Those fascinated by the techniques of the great painters would benefit from understanding their palettes.…

  • The Arts Map

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    The Arts Map is a new site, still in BETA, that uses a version of Google Maps to list artists, arts organizations, galleries, and other arts related people, places and things in a geographical context. Other than those who operate their own gallery or offer instruction in their studios, I’m not sure how useful it…

  • Restoration of Van Gogh’s The Bedroom

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    Vincent van Gogh’s now iconic painting of his bedroom in Arles is one of his most famous and favored works. He described his intention for the painting in his letters to his brother Theo, saying: “This time it’s simply my bedroom, but the colour has to do the job here, and through its being simplified…

  • The Color Wheel on Gurney Journey

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    Painter and illustrator James Gurney, who I recently profiled here, is currently writing a series of fascinating posts on his blog, Gurney Journey, about The Color Wheel. In them he is exploring questions that are not raised often enough, including questioning the concept of exactly what is a primary color, and how might primary colors…