Sometimes your best teachers are your fellow student buddies. Janet Fagan shared with me a color formula that her mentor shared with her. I'm afraid that I've totally screwed it up since she described it to me over the phone and I just couldn't quite visualize it.
[Other color theory resources suggested by MFAers: Josef Albers,
Interaction of Color (purchased and on the way); Johannes Itten,
The Elements of Color; David Batchelor,
Chromophobia. I also found a local color theory "crash course" 10/17 and 10/18. The Guardian website also had a bunch of short color exercises such as "Mixing the colours: mid-tones".].
The idea is that you put blobs of red, yellow, blue (or whatever combination you want to work with) on the top and bottom of your palette. Then you mix a blob of neutral gray in the middle. Then, on the left, you mix each of the colors with the neutral, then add blue. These are your cool colors. Then you create lights and darks by adding whites to these. On the right, you mix the three colors, then add yellow. These are your warm colors, etc.
So here are my sketches using this palette:
stuff-tossed 1, 10/2/09
stuff-tossed 2, 10/2/09
Here are just joyful things:
what happens when a kid gets her first guitar, 9/24/09
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