Where to start?
I use a basic set of paints which have evolved since I learned to them up from a Walter Foster book on painting clowns when I was 14. Art school taught me about Albers and color theory. We worked with acrylics, watercolors, or gouache. My palettes still had primary and secondary colors, but they weren’t very organized. Eventually, I started using colors in a more organized way.sometime in the 1980s. Usually in limited watercolor or acrylic palettes. Each painting demanding its own mix.
About 14 years ago I stated with oils as my primary medium and quickly created a more standard though shorthand set up. I did a few good painting that still hold up today. I started painting from models with a small group of artists. All way better that me. After I while I picked up some tricks from them. The one in particular that fits my brain is the 12 color spectrum palette. And in particular the making that set from just the three primaries of red, blue and yellow. Miraculous! I learn this from Judith Reeve.
I have documented this process in s sort of schematic manner, After all I was a data visualization art for a long time.
Here are a few frames from it. The color is idaelized. This document was made in Adobe Illustrator using a CMYK profile. Subtractive color the same as mixing oil paints.
This triangle represents the 12 color spectrum mixed from the primaries. Making The secondary, and tertiary groupings. More on this later.
This shows the outer color in therir full intensity. Along with 2 inner triangle the are mixed a metaphoric way to neutralize the ‘parent’ triangles. A lot more later.
This is the basic mixing of the parent 12 color spectrum.
There’ll be a lot more on this when I get the time. I will be glad to answer any questions - jkingston@mac.com. It is fishing season so it may take a bit if time
A lot of charting goin’ on. Note the wave going on here.
