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Color Studies documented and explained.
Works are either painted with Gouache or cut and pasted Color-Aid color sheets.
Nature Inventory - Sea Shell
A non objective painting using the color ratios found on a sea shell.
Nature Inventory - Blue Beatle
A non objective painting using the color ratio found on a blue beetle.
Middle Transparency
Selecting colors to feign transparency.
Light Transparency - Spotlight Emulation
Emulating a spotlight with color theory and color aid sheets. Cut and fitted color aid paper pieces.
Dark Transparency - Spill Emulation
Emulating a spill using color theory and color aid sheets. Cut and fitted color-aid paper pieces
Vibrating Edges
Same Value
Different Hues
Sharp "Vibrating" Edges
Optical Occlusion
Colors at increasingly smaller relative sizes have an inverted effect on color perception. This image shrunk at a small size should have the blue strips made darker on against the black background on the left, and shifted toward a green hue and lighter on the right.