Colour And Light – James Gurney (1)

THE HIsTory In the Middle Ages, artists kept their paint in shallow containers like shells or saucers. The first reference to a mixing palette was from an account by the Duke of Burgundy in the 1460s, where he de- scribed “trenchers of wood for painters to put oil colors on and to hold them in the hand.”

Palettes were often set up by assistants, which helped standardize the procedure for laying out the colors. The practice of mixing colors on a palette was common in the early 1500s. By 1630 it was a lively topic. Vasari said that Lorenzo di Credi “made on his palette a great number of color mixtures.” References to palette knives show up around 1650.

Elaborate premixed tints became a common practice by the late 1600s. During the next century artists more frequently used a “loaded” or premixed palette with fully developed titanium white cadmium yellow light pyrrole red yellow ochre Venetian red burnt sienna quinacridone rose ultramarine blue pthalo cyan Hand-held wooden palette gradations of tints and variations. A Swiss painter’s manual in the 1820s compared the gradations on the palette to the notes of a piano keyboard.

James McNeill Whistler was said to spend an hour preparing his mixtures. Eugene Delacroix’s assistant reported that it sometimes took days to set up his master’s palette. Many oil painters use a tabletop- or taboret-mounted palette. The taboret palette, below right, is mounted ona hinged surface that can tip up to any angle. The tube colors are squeezed out on a color bar, a piece of plywood along the left edge. The paint is mixed on white plastic-coated freezer paper, which hangs on a roll behind the color bar.

Some studio painters prefer to mix on a plate-glass surface. As the palette fills Color wheel with gamut mask to define color range. Tube colors on a piece of 44-inch plywood. Mixing surface of plastic- coated freezer paper, which sits behind plywood.

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For information, please write to: Special Sales Department, Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, 1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER |: TRADITION OLD Masters’ CoLor THE ACADEMIC TRADITION OpeEN-AIR PAINTING IN BRITAIN THE Hupson RIver SCHOOL PLEIN-AiR MOVEMENTS SYMBOLIST DREAMS MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION 24 CHAPTER 2: SOURCES OF LIGHT Direct SUNLIGHT Overcast LIGHT WInbow LIGHT CANDLELIGHT AND FIRELIGHT INDoor ELectric LIGHT STREETLIGHTS AND NIGHT CONDITIONS LUMINESCENCE HIDDEN LIGHT SouRCES CHAPTER 3: LIGHT AND FoRM THE ForM PRINCIPLE SEPARATION OF LIGHT AND SHADOW Cast SHADOWS HALF SHADOW OCCLUSION SHADOWS THREE-QUARTER LIGHTING FRONTAL LIGHTING EpGE LIGHTING CONTRE JOUR LIGHT FROM BELOW REFLECTED LIGHT SPOTLIGHTING LIMITATIONS OF THE FoRM PRINCIPLE CHAPTER 4: ELEMENTS OF COLOR RETHINKING THE COLOR WHEEL CHROMA AND VALUE LocAL CoLor GRAYS AND NEUTRALS THE GREEN PROBLEM GRADATION TINTS CHAPTER 5: PAINT AND PIGMENTS THE SEARCH FOR PIGMENTS CHARTING PIGMENTS LIGHTFASTNESS WARM UNDERPAINTING Sky PANELS TRANSPARENCY AND GLAZING PALETTE ARRANGEMENTS LIMITED PALETTES Tue Mupb DEBATE 28 30 32 34 CHAPTER 6: COLOR RELATIONSHIPS MONOCHROMATIC SCHEMES WARM AND COOL COLORED LIGHT INTERACTIONS TRIADS CoLor ACCENT CHAPTER 7: PREMIXING MrxING CoLor STRINGS GamuT MAppiING CREATING GAMuT MAsks SHAPES OF COLOR SCHEMES MIXING A CONTROLLED GAMUT COLOR SCRIPTING 110 i?

114 116 118 122 124 126 128 130 2) CHAPTER 8: VISUAL PERCEPTION A WOoRLD WITHOUT COLOR Is MOONLIGHT BLUE?

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