Know Your Oranges: Color Definition
How well do you know your shades of orange? Let’s find out with a game of match the color sample to its name. … Continue reading
Solving Color Reproduction Issues in Photography, Printing & Television for 40 Years
The Making of the ColorChecker Cameras, printers and displays are naturally flawed. Why? Because they are not capable of reproducing all of the colors the human eye sees, nor do images that are captured reproduce the actual colors seen in … Continue reading
How Color, Light, Art & Flow State Heal & Boost Creativity & Productivity: An Interview with Leanne Venier Part 3
Leanne Venier is an international award-winning artist who first started painting 8 years ago. Within the first few months of learning to paint, she discovered how to use color to consistently tap into Flow state during her painting process, and … Continue reading
Fused Glass Attributes & Controlling Color in Your Artwork
Color in glass differs from color in other mediums, in fact color in glass can transform itself. Glass, unlike other media, has a diversity of ways to show color. With the medium of glass there is reflected light and transmitted … Continue reading
Color Theory in Drawing – How Value Plays An Important Role
Technically, drawing in colored pencil is simply layering semitransparent colors on paper to create vivid paintings. Every color has three qualities: temperature, intensity and value. The combination of these three qualities gives paintings an illusion of depth and form, but … Continue reading
Color in Books 2015 Roundup
This is the third installment of the Munsell’s “Color in Books Series,” where we look at new releases in the field of color. If you are looking for last minute gifts, books never disappoint. From color history and education to … Continue reading
What Can Your Favorite Color Tell You About Yourself: An Interview with Leanne Venier Part 2
Leanne Venier is an international award-winning artist who first started painting 8 years ago. Within the first few months of learning to paint, she discovered how to use color to consistently tap into Flow state during her painting process, and … Continue reading
Creating a Killer Zombie Color Palette
Turn on the TV. Go to movies. Check out the print ads. In the past few years we have been subjected to an expanded population of roving ZOMBIES! They all got out somehow and seemed to permeate into everything. … Continue reading
Let’s Make Mud – Understanding & Mixing Complementary Colors Part 2
Now that you understand the basics from Part 1 of Let’s Make Mud, let’s dive further into understanding complementary colors and take it to the next level of complexity. … Continue reading
The Munsell Water Colors
The Munsell Water Colors were created around 1914. The set contains 10 scientifically measured colors inside metal tins along with a No.7 camel hair brush and info sheet all tucked inside a metal case with a color sphere printed on the … Continue reading
