A Grammar of Color – Part 15: The Color Sheets – Brown, Grouse Drab
There are many pages of Color Sheets in the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color. We continue with our excerpts from this book with Color Sheets 5 and 6: Millcraft Cover Paper in Brown, Antique Finish, and Bannockburn Cover in … Continue reading
“Frank J. Reilly – The Elements of Painting”: An Interview with Artist, Author & Educator Ralph Garafola Part 2
In this second part of our series, we talk to Ralph about Frank J. Reilly’s contribution to the Munsell system, the three things that can’t be painted, what colors painters should use, the importance of value, advice for young artists and … Continue reading
A Grammar of Color – Part 14: The Color Sheets – Gray, Pyro Brown
Another excerpt from the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color. This is the second post on the section, The Color Sheets, which shows the images and descriptions for the Gray, Antique Finish Millcraft Cover Paper and Pyro Brown, Telanian Finish Rhododendron … Continue reading
The Munsell Book of Color 1929: The Charts
This section of the 1st edition of the Munsell Book of Color from 1929 discusses the colors of constant hue (diagram of 10 vertical charts), value (diagram 6 radial charts) and chroma (diagram of 8 cylindrical charts). … Continue reading
The Munsell Book of Color 1929: The Color Sphere
Since the three dimensions of color must be as readily understood as the three dimensions of a box, it is necessary to have in mind some simple, orderly arrangement of all colors, in which HUE, VALUE, and CHROMA are separately … 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
The Munsell Book of Color 1929: Hue, Value & Chroma
This section of the 1st edition of the Munsell Book of Color from 1929 discusses the three dimensions of color: Hue, Value and Chroma. … Continue reading