Category: Color
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ColourLex
Back in 2012, I wrote about a website called Pigments through the Ages; a resource about the history and nature of artist’s pigments. That site is 10 years old now, and as far as I know, is no longer being actively developed. However, one of the original authors of that site, Juraj Lipscher, has created…
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The joys of a limited “three primary” palette
I was struck yesterday by a post on the blog of Jeffery Hayes about his experimentation with the limited palette recommended by Mark Carder in his method of learning to paint. Hayes is a still life painter who uses a wide palette of up to 70 paints, and produces quite beautiful results from his choices.…
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Golden Virtual Paint Mixer
Golden Artist Colors, the well known manufacturer of artists’ acrylic paints and related materials, has posted an interactive Virtual Paint Mixer on their website. The module allows you to choose from their range of colors and assign three tube colors to the mixing tubes on the right (by dragging or selecting and clicking) and then…
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Pigments through the Ages
Pigments through the Ages is a web feature that explores artists’ pigments and their history in a series of brief, interconnected articles. From the navigation at page top you can Choose a Pigment, though I found it more informative to Browse Colors, as that gives you an overview of the limited list of pigments included…
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Did Van Gogh have protanomal color deficiency?
About 8 percent of male human beings, and a much smaller 0.5 percent of females, have some form of color vision deficiency, commonly called “color blindness”, in which the perception of colors is limited or altered in some way compared to the general population. It has been suggested at times that Vincent van Gogh’s unusual…
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James Gurney on Gamut Masking
A gamut is a range of colors. More specifically it is a range of colors that can be created or reproduced on a particular device or with a certain set of beginning colors. Those working with print reproduction are very familiar with the concept of the CMYK gamut, or the range of colors that can…