“Frank J. Reilly – The Elements of Painting”: An Interview with Artist, Author & Educator Ralph Garafola
“To succeed in the realm of graphic arts, like dancing and music, one must acquire knowledge. By practicing and applying that knowledge, one becomes skillful. It was Reilly’s logical application which was the basis for developing my craft. After 65 … Continue reading
The Munsell Book of Color 1929: Care of the Charts
This section of the 1st edition of the Munsell Book of Color from 1929 discusses the care of the color charts, spinning discs and the color tree. … Continue reading
A Grammar of Color – Part 13: The Color Sheets
In our series of blog posts with the contents of the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color, we have covered the introductory section by Albert Munsell, and a practical description of the Munsell Color System and how it can be … Continue reading
The Difference Between Chroma and Saturation
The words chroma and saturation are often used interchangeably, but are defined as distinct concepts by the Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage (CIE), whose terminology is widely accepted as standard in science and technology. The distinction rests … 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
A Review of the Nickerson Horticultural Fan Deck
This review of the Nickerson Horticultural Fan Deck first appeared in, The Bulletin of Popular Information of the Arnoldia Arboretum, Harvard University, September 20th, 1957. It is still relevant today to show the reasoning behind creating a color standard for Horticulturalists … Continue reading
The Nickerson Fan Deck: Horticultural Colour Chart Names with Munsell Key
A Munsell key is provided for the 800 samples in the two-volume edition of the Horticultural Colour Chart (HCC) published 1939/40 by the British Colour Council in cooperation with the Royal Horticultural Council. The charts are known also as the … Continue reading
The Munsell Book of Color 1929: Use of the Charts
The Munsell System provides a notation for any color in the universe. The charts contain a careful selection of colors arranged in orderly sequences of HUE, VALUE, and CHROMA. … Continue reading
Munsell Hue Circle Poster
“Popular color names are incongruous, irrational, and often ludicrous.” – Albert Munsell Hue is the quality by which we distinguish one color from another, as a red from a yellow, a green from a blue. In science it can be … Continue reading
From Geologist to Artist with the Munsell Colour System
Being as this is National Colour Therapy Month, it seems rather ironic that in my former career as a geologist, and now retired as a self taught artist, that I have been able to use my Munsell Color Order System … Continue reading
