A group web log about color for painters. Check it out.
Update
23 March 2008: Please note that the Rational Color blog has been transitioned to a forum. Membership is limited: you must apply and be approved. If you are a serious student of art you may want to do that. It is definitely a place for serious discussion of painting.
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What are your thoughts on the whole Primary/Split Primary vs. Munsell debate, Dave?
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Sam,
I have not followed any debate at the Rational Color blog, if there is one and that’s what you are referring to.
I see Munsell as a tool for describing color which does not say much useful about the process of color mixing. It provides a concrete way to describe color (either the color of objects we observer or the color of paint we are mixing and applying). That’s what it’s good for.
In general, I’m not personally very interested in primary-based palettes. For one thing, they generally focus mainly on finding the paint with the highest chroma in a desired hue slot. I find the internet discussions one can find about which pigment index number fits best into which slot to be extraordinarily tiresome and impractical for my style of painting, which is mainly low-chroma in nature. So I find that a core palette approach to be more useful for me.
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just though I’d mention that this blog has become invite only it seems. oh well I found it interesting for awhile..
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Matthew,
It has changed. Thanks for letting me know.
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