I have started to study colors (finally). I mean, I have been painting on and off for about a year and a half now. But whenever I paint, I have spent 75% of my time just trying to get the colors right, which means I am left with little time to paint my model or still life. It became apparent to me that its time to buckle down and study the colors. My friend Chris Page recommended the Richard Schmid book "Everything I know about painting" to me. It is a fantastic book; in the book, Schmid recommends you do the color charts in order to master them. So here I go.
These charts were done over the last few weekends. They take a fair amount of time to do, because it has to be just right. There is a total of 12 charts. With 11 colors, Schmid says you can create just about any color you can buy in the stores. This is exciting stuff to me, because I really want to master the colors. Here I have done two: the pure color charts (taking each of the 11 colors down to the lightest value in 5 steps), and a chart which has the cadmium yellow deep color pre-dominating the chart (while mixed against the other 10 colors, again doing the value scale in 5 steps).
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