Wednesday, August 29, 2007



The Big Glossy Munsell books arrived yesterday so today I am busy mixing paint and sampling colors. (Thank you Rob!) BabelColor is a tool that was recommended to me once by someone who understands this color system. Used with the eyedropper in Photoshop. it is a very cool tool- giving the exact munsell notation for any part of an image. The combination of the book and the computer tools are really going a long way toward training my eye for color. I have lots of work to do- cubes and spheres to paint and then paint pictures of. My plan right now is to take one day a week to learn color- mix colors and explore munsell. The rest of the week will be devoted to applying what I have learned in new works.

This is a detail of a painting of Norma that I left facing the wall some time ago. It is still probably destined for the burn pile, but for now, I am using what little I understand about the color system to try to fix it. Not fixed yet- but so much better than it was.

Tomorrow is a new cityscape- see you soon:-)

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

truthfully all your work belongs in the burn pile

October 22, 2007 10:44 PM  
Blogger kiergaard said...

What a nice thing to say! thank you.

It is so great to see people passing the love around. Makes the world a better place, and life worth living.

October 23, 2007 11:18 PM  

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