My early attempts at color matching were done by holding pencils up to the flower or plant that I was drawing, leaning in close and then closing one eye to get the most accurate read possible. What I thought was color matching was really just guessing… So I read about using color swatches – I know! Duh!
On a swatch I drew the pencil light to hard to see the full range of a color. That along with the name/number of the color created the swatch.
pencil swatch the 'old' way
An artist friend of mine helped me see that this swatch, while an improvement over eyeballing it, still wasn’t ideal because on my swatch the colors were too close together and so each color was influencing the one butted up next to it. Also, how was I to add colors to my swatch as I got more pencils? Hmm…
So now the new swatch looks like this:
color swatches the 'new' way
These new swatches still show the same information for each pencil but, being individual cards, they can be seen without their neighboring color interfering. This swatch can also be added to easily with each new pencil I get! Much better!
color swatch success!
That is a very good technique for colour matching.
This ia a trick i may well pick up on my next colour project.
Comment by Artswebshow — January 29, 2011 @ 6:07 pm |
Great solution you came up with!
Now here is your next lesson
This is one of the best distillations of the dense color hard core color theory. Makes it understandable http://poynterextra.org/cp/colorproject/color.html
Comment by Christine Martell — January 30, 2011 @ 11:12 am |
Wow! Thx for the link on color…so much to learn. I knew my color complements but had NO IDEA that you can look at a color, close your eyes and see it’s complement. I love that!
Comment by beantime — February 4, 2011 @ 8:45 pm |