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yeah, anyone that paints will care the most about other things, like which colors they actually have available, and the quality of the pigments. If you take, sa
by ta_1138 2y ago
yeah, anyone that paints will care the most about other things, like which colors they actually have available, and the quality of the pigments. If you take, say, most single pigment reds that aren't very toxic, you'll see that they have relatively low coverage: Lay it over a dark color, and you aren't really getting red, but filtering the darker color with some red on top. Pure pigments however kind of mix into reasonable colors that more or less resemble what a color wheel will tell you, but many paints are reached through mixes, and mixing mixes is often not getting you the colors the wheel would predict: Chances are you are getting something pretty brown, with very low intensity. You can make fun tricks for students, like showing them two pairs of almost indistinguishable blobs of paint, but that mix to something different, because two of the colors were pure pigments, and the others a carefully made mess.
And then there's not just color, but finishes, and the body of the paint.
So yes, once actually talking colors in a real piece, while the color wheel is a very useful tool for determining pleasant schemes, just like in a website, your real primary colors you think about are never a bright yellow, a bright red, and a bright blue.
- rerdavies 2y ago> while the color wheel is a very useful tool for determining pleasant schemes Is it? To my eyes, opposite colors on the painter's color wheel are maximally unpleasant. Green/red, for example, is infamous for creating bizarrely strobing optical illusions, when placed adjacent to each other. Purple/yellow. Blue/Orange. Also horrible combinations. I don't find color triads to be particularly pleasant combinations either. I'm convinced that it's some made-up Victorian pomposity that nobody bothered to contradict, because anyone who was an actual artist didn't use it. Much like the Victorian theory that we taste salty and sweet on different parts of our tongue (we don't).
- gilleain 2y agoCertainly blue/orange is notorious for making a dramatic visual effect: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContrast https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContra... whether that's a good thing ...
- itishappy 2y agoIt is. The color wheel says complementary colors pop, but it doesn't imply this is a good thing. It's up to the designer to create something interesting from the contrast, typically by not putting them directly together. A sibling comment mentions the blue-orange movie poster trope, and this is an excellent example. Note how the posters use the two colors: large blocky areas separated by either a smooth gradient or a high-density area of interest. Here's some other examples: https://janabouc.com/2016/07/30/color-boot-camp-part-iii-complementary-colors-redgreen-2/ https://janabouc.com/2016/07/30/color-boot-camp-part-iii-com... https://www.bhg.com/decorating/color/schemes/complementary-color-schemes/ https://www.bhg.com/decorating/color/schemes/complementary-c...