Colour Charts

The project is finished and is quite a display. It has been one of my biggest learning curves regarding colour. And it could be easily repeated for deeper insights into the mixing ratios, of for a change in palette. It has been an exhilirating project - sometimes it even felt alive!

Colour Chart #9 - before and after

This is the phthalo blue chart - all of the colours on my palette (across) have been mixed with this blue and then with white (down). The values are supposed to be correct and the last one nearly white. There are always a few smudges where the tape was not tight and then the cat tried to rub up against it. Each chart has a mess up. Maybe the 12th one will be perfect.

Colour Charts #2,4 & 6

Charts are in process, and being slightly impatient, I am jumping ahead to see what the mixtures will look like because I basically know that Cadmium Yellow Pale and Cadmium Yellow will have minimal differences. So I ignored the Cad Yellow one for now and went to the Yellow Ochre and then the Cad Red. Will get to the stragglers eventually.

Colour Chart #1

The time has come to really diligently learn more about colours, and this comes in the form of doing 12 colour charts as described in Richard Schmid's book "Alla Prima". After frequently hearing or reading that it is time well spent, I am now in full agreement.