The Importance of Color Theory in Painting

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Side by side images of cadmium red light paint next to gray colors. Shown in color, then desaturated to see if values are about the same.

Left: Testing my best guess at findnig a gray that is the same value as cadmium red light. This is one of the more difficult things to see because a high-chroma color feels so much more lit than a gray.
Right: The same photo, desaturated, shows that the values are about the same. The sheen makes it a little hard to tell, but close enough is close enough!

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