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Every single pigment has a purpose. Sometimes you don’t WANT something lightfast and opaque, Alizarin crimson is not trash, you’re just trying to use it for a purpose it isn’t suited for. Use it for glazing and you’ll like it a hell of a lot more. Use pigments for what their properties suggest they are suited for, do not try to use pigments in use cases for which they are horribly suited or you’ll be just as sorely disappointed as you seem to be with Alizarin Crimson. Alizarin crimson is not lightfast nor opaque, don’t try to use it as if it is. Use it for glazing, it’s perfectly suited to that!

Color Nerd, do you know of a good book about color harmonies? I want to understand different color harmonies, why a color harmonizes with another. Is a color wheel always the starting point for a color harmony? Should I know the effect of one color on another color? The effect of shadows on a color in real life.Yellows could become greenish under a shadow?

Omg this is really fascinating, thank you for the free material/stuff its a lot of work

I think there will be at least 3 simultaneous effects: 1. White spreads because it does reflect light while black does the opposite. If you draw a black line on a white paper and then take a strong lamp and point it directly onto the line you can see that the line becomes white or having white fissures along its edges. Usual black can only absorb a certain proportion of light so it gets outshined at some point. (And don't forget there is still a white layer beyond the black. But this is too much quantum stuff...) 2. High contrasts create the illusion of depth. Brains are trained to estimate the depth of a room by its contrasts influenced by light. The color block to the left will be usually interpreted as behind something and the black lines, respectively the object of higher contrast closer to you e.g. when looking outside through a window with a louvre (perspective from the internal system (window) to an external system (environment e.g. sun). The opposite is also true where objects of higher contrast and dimmer color are interpreted as far away e.g. when you are in the same system (dark corners in the room respectively "shadows"). This effect has also an opposite of the opposite and exceptions but this going too far... Looking onto the right side the color block is violating the rule of depth independently from the presence of the left color block. The black lines become interrupted by another color, but progressing with black meaning there must be a gap due to damage etc. This is why it may feel displaced. 3. The bright color illusion? It's similar to the illusion of depth. Brighter colors are interpreted to be closer to you than dark tones. This is also physics and perceived correctly as well because brighter colors usually tend to be closer to the source of energy e.g. the sun. Anything else would be partly absorbed by the atmosphere etc thus looking dimmer. However on the bright and two dimensional sheets of paper e.g. it becomes an illusion. Back to the brighter block on the right side you see black, white, and blue or pink. Its two bright systems and one dark. Each color is brighter than black, so the result will be mostly the same but stronger when using brighter tones, because they inherit or reflect more energy. Because the usual pattern seems to be black lines followed by white space the colored source cannot be perceived as something usual especially when it is replacing the dark tone (black line). It feels displaced and these segments must be closer to you. The white space is increasing this effect. And bright color + bright white must be closer and the color brighter than the black lined contrast. 4. The wrong assumption So illusions are mostly created by wrong assumptions of behaviour experienced in 3 dimensional space. These rules don't be necessarily always true, especially within areas we couldn't usually experience. We have no natural understanding of different wavelengths, especially within the nanoscale these translated to 2 dimensional items. Moreover human perception is also limited. Its more limited than we think it is. Just have a look onto the EM-Spectrum. It may be just 3% of it we can perceive or understand... The brain needs to extrapolate the bright tones away from to the black toned lines to make the most sense respectively some kind of shape of it. Doing so it's deciding to mix the bright colors together to a brighter average colored metastated and shaped block. If you look from far away you will always see a unicolored block instead of randomly colored lines. So the shape is also an extrapolation of the sum of everything.

Whatever these paints do, my screen refused to follow. It just looks like layerd watercolors

Love it. It's almost just a cultural construct of Western artists, though I find myself thinking in these terms too and it would probably be difficult to change.

Thanks for the color aid show. 😊

HSLuv is really useful to painting with CMYK print in mind. Is really easy to see what are the more vibrant color is possible to use. In Rebelle, is really pratical to use with pallete proof.

Fun

I'm colorblind, they're all bad for me :P

Have this at the top of my wish list. You've quickly tipped me over the edge. Thank you!

Fascinating! You've put your finger something I've experienced & used in painting and made it crystal clear. Bravo!

Well done!

THX ...

Also a color nerd. Thanks for introducing me to Wojciech Fangor.

I believe it’s because we should be using cyan magenta and yellow as primaries.

What color wheel of device should we be using that is accurate ?

Im so glad TH-cam suggested a video of you, this is the right way (nerd way) for my brain to learn deeper about colours

Very interesting as always. Stephen Quiller puts a lot of emphasis in his book "Color Choices" on how to mix his choice of complements to achieve neutral grays. There are tables (for acrylics, oils, watercolors) in the book on which brands color he uses to accomplish this.

this is amazing. what a great tool!

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How does this interact with redshifting/blueshifting (if at all), and with that hazy blue-ish effect you get at the edge of the horizon sometimes?

🤯 This makes me understand why ancient people so strongly believed in magic.

This is such a cool way to demonstrate the difference between additive and subtractive colour mixing.

This is a fantastic review thank you (especially for keeping it to four minutes of actual content rather than four minutes of content and twelve minutes of filler).

I got all of them 🥹

Wouldn't the molecular structure of the pigments (based on the source of the pigments) have an impact here? After all, RGB wheel deals with light in the mode of energy. Whereas paint is dealing with matter.

My brain perceived the colors the same until you finished the right side. I actively noticed my perceptions shift from the same color to different colors.

I enjoy every one of your videos. Im not an artist but color theory and color perception overlap alot with science.

This is what Sir Ernst Gombrich called "the Spreading Effect." it's why type in a book looks gray, while it's actually black. The white page seems to "spread" over the black type.

Fascinating!!! 🎉 I may not fully comprehend hoe this works ... nonetheless, FASCINATING!!! 😂

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My personal suspicion is that, just as man has numerous blood types, I believe man (collectively)has numerous numerous color vision processes. I believe our understanding of 'color blindness' is misguided because of this. I say this as a partially 'colorblind' watercolor artist. Let's not forget that the brain can/does form new neuro-pathways when introduced to new awareness (colorblindness) + info (color theory)....this can cause the brain to rescript the way colors are perceived and interpreted.

Fascinating!

I have NO idea why the algorithm threw this my way, but it’s fascinating! Had no idea this color theory existed!

The OTHER missing two angles Point towards Magenta and Teal such as the new color theory TYM !!

Recommended by the Frugal Crafter, who spoke highly of it, I thought I could use the Gamu, but can't find where it is. How do I get hold of it?

Hey! First of all, I am a big fan of your vídeos! I'm a color theory professor at the Design major of the Federal University of Pelotas (Brasil), and I'm willing to replicate this board, but with gouache. It's part of my book of colors, witch is used as a model for my students. Thank you so much for your content!

Cool, thanks for the lesson.

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Interesting! But what do you mean by "pushing against the black"?

The “double primary” color wheel is very close to this. Very interesting.

2:51 Those bastards. 😡

Oddly OK:GO, yes that band sent me here lol. But hey, great video!

Where is your "link tree"?

My goodness sometime YT throws something at me I didn’t even know I wanted. Subscribed.

if it aint goethes colour theory it aint worth reading 😎😎😎

Got orange and violet. I'm really surprised by the pink, I expected it to be kind of a grey color because it seemed like a close match to each filters color

Yes white does appear