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Munsell should be helping but first I’ll need to learn more about how to use my tube paints to duplicate the Munsell chips from the Student Book. How to build my own Munsell Charts? First I sorted by tube colors by hue. Reds 1 – Cadmium Red Medium – Artisan 2 – Cadmium Red Deep…
I started looking at the color bias wheel for my own tube paints. I have Cad Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Cad Red Light. Instead of Rose Red I used Alizarine Crimson Hue. From then I did lots of mixing and built this wheel. My Color Wheel Amazingly it seems to give me…
Color Bias – Warm/Cool I learned that every color has a particular bias (warm/cool) and therefore leans one direction around the color wheel or another. A blue will either be a blue which leans toward violet, such as Ultramarine Blue, or it will lean toward green, such as Cerulean. The same is true with red. A…
Although I’ve been following Paul Foxton for a bit over a year, this is really my first real try at using Munsell for my own paintings. Ok. I’m convinced. Paul has taught me something quite valuable. White Rose Study This study still has a long way to go to “match what I see”,…
These Value Studies are designed to help my still life paintings improve. I’m finding them quite a bit more difficult than I had thought. I asked a carpenter friend of mine to help. He agreed to cut up some 2×4 into 2x2s. Only after he did that he mentioned that the only 2×4’s he had…
My beloved John has just finished his first walk of 1 complete mile this year! It was a fund-raiser for this great program that allows Alzheimer’s patients to pre-load iPods with lots of favorite music from their youth. At the end stages of this disease, music is often found to be one way they can…
All enthused I went down to our cafe and brought home a lemon, an apple and an orange. I painted a couple of cubes with some acrylics. The shadow box was set up and I was ready to paint. This should be simple, right? Of course not. Set up for 1st Color Study 1st Color…
Ok, so we’ve all seen grey scales or value scales. So what’s different here? My Munsell Neutrals Well they’re not really grey! Or at least they cannot be made by combining Titanium White and Ivory Black! And that’s because Ivory Black is really not black. Rather it’s a very dark shade leaning toward blue. In…
Yes, I’m fully bought in! I am committed to really making my colors realistic. Paul Foxton has convinced me that this is really easy. Right now I’m not so sure that easy is the right word, but I’ll certainly give it a whirl. This all feels like graduate school and I’m still a freshman. But…
Ok, the last color charts are now done. Boy that was some undertaking. But it’s another one I’m really glad I did. What a learning journey! The way a mid Chroma is altered over the range of Value and Chroma is amazing. To really see how orange becomes brown. To see all the subtlety. To…
Munsell is a slow but steady process. Just sorting out the pages and chips for this 5Y page took most of the day. 5Y Chart The first first page of the value/chroma chips, the R/Y (normally called orange) had me concerned. Most of the chips are just perfect, but some are stuck and that leads…
Exploring colors has been challenging and fun, too. I’m learning more about hue, value and chroma. Now the first two pages are in the book! Just sorting out the chips in the student book for one hue, red, has taken most of an afternoon.
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