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As an art instructor, I don't wish to hide the fact that I crash and burn often. I will always be learning. So, it all gets shown here . . .good and bad. Every painting we do counts in the learning and experience process. The failures actually are much better teachers than successes. Every piece made is a teacher. That's the fun of it: the challenge to learn.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Much To YOUR AMAZEMENT


Color Illusion
Those of us who are painters know that color is judged in the context of the colors surrounding them. That is to say that the way we, as humans, process color every color looks different when surrounded with other colors.
This illustration above is from an article in a Discover magazine blog which is a MUST READ
While you look at the above color spirals, you might be interested in knowing that the greenish and the blue spirals are exactly the same color!!!!!!
Yup! Blue green is the color . . .sort of a teal color, actually. Someone in that blog isolated the colors in photoshop and, sure enough, they are indeed precisely the same color. The color is influenced by the magenta and the orange stripes. Amazing, eh?

3 comments:

RHCarpenter said...

That just doesn't seem possible - how are you going to ever say again: I won't believe it until I see it with my own eyes!?! ha ha

Holly Van Hart said...

Mike, Unbelievable!!! (But I believe you.) Thanks for sharing. Holly

Jack said...

I have tried this with only pencil...u too try that..not a bad idea i guess..But ur work is awesome no doubt in that..

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Jack
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