tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post5154056221289455023..comments2024-03-18T07:23:32.809-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: Color Wheel Masking, Part 1James Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-1321819002914036922023-10-06T07:04:55.320-04:002023-10-06T07:04:55.320-04:00Me gusta mucho su blog , tengo el libro Color and ...Me gusta mucho su blog , tengo el libro Color and Light, casi todos sus vídeos y le sigo en YouTube. Solo escribo esto para darle las gracias por lo que me ha enseñado y me ha hecho disfrutar. <br />Muchas Gracias<br />Una aficionada a la pintura.<br />Desde España, Ima Gallegoima gallegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09895732629678247460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-12790491568781233372021-12-09T07:14:01.373-05:002021-12-09T07:14:01.373-05:00This article is brimming with information about Im...This article is brimming with information about Image masking for more like this. I have additionally discovered an article anybody can check for more data <a href="https://clippingpixel.com/" rel="nofollow"> Image Masking </a>, It was knowingly more instructive. You may discover more insights regarding it here.Sarah Jordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754675116616804039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-2024707883149122832008-02-12T00:32:00.000-05:002008-02-12T00:32:00.000-05:00Mr.Gurney I think this is a terrific method of se...Mr.Gurney<BR/> <BR/>I think this is a terrific method of selecting colors for someone like me that has what I can only describe as color dyslexia. I am wondering if you have a way of figuring out what masked section of the color wheel works best in an illustration before you use it in a actual piece?<BR/>Thank you for taking the time to post this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-11686404296919568192008-02-04T05:41:00.000-05:002008-02-04T05:41:00.000-05:00this is a great idea, thanks for sharing it! I hav...this is a great idea, thanks for sharing it! I have posted about this article and linked to you on my blog Fossfor's lab.<BR/>I love your blog,it's full of fascinating info and advice.Fossforhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15366256644768056704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-35257544469909247822008-02-01T05:38:00.000-05:002008-02-01T05:38:00.000-05:00Thanks, Geoff, for leaving a comment. And you're n...Thanks, Geoff, for leaving a comment. And you're not alone in feeling puzzled about which colors to use in a picture. I do, too--not only which to use, but which to leave out, which for me takes more discipline. That's where color wheel masking really helps. Stay tuned for the next couple of Sunday posts.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-33164431201955044602008-01-31T21:18:00.000-05:002008-01-31T21:18:00.000-05:00long time reader, first time commenter. truly grea...long time reader, first time commenter. <BR/><BR/>truly great idea!<BR/>as a struggling student artist, color composition is a huge hurtle for me right now. a question as simple as 'which colors do i use?' has been very daunting. <BR/>your system makes sense and is brilliant in its simplicity. <BR/><BR/>thanks for sharing. <BR/>your posts have been a great asset to me.Geoff Shupe - Concept Artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07143745229020262802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-6669951272209866892008-01-29T21:01:00.000-05:002008-01-29T21:01:00.000-05:00What a great way to visualize a color scheme! Than...What a great way to visualize a color scheme! Thank you for this. I'm looking forward to part 2.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-48107066551780363232008-01-28T12:33:00.000-05:002008-01-28T12:33:00.000-05:00Thanks,this is a real Eureka! type of eye opener. ...Thanks,this is a real Eureka! type of eye opener. Discussions of color are often sooooo esoteric that they lose me.I'll be interested to play around with this idea of color selection. It is kind of like an endlessly variable limited palette and I've always found that limiting the colors makes for the strongest paintings. I love Color Sundays!Michael Dooneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00246162742705076367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-80601454465264485332008-01-28T08:05:00.000-05:002008-01-28T08:05:00.000-05:00Hi, Judy,I'm glad you asked. I use the term "optic...Hi, Judy,<BR/>I'm glad you asked. I use the term "optical gray" to mean a color that's completely neutral--that is it doesn't lean toward blue or orange or green. <BR/><BR/>It is mixed from complementary colors, say blue plus orange or green plus red. I also brought the tonal value of the gray up to a middle tone (say about 40% from white to black) by mixing in some Titanium white so that you can see it clearly. <BR/><BR/>You could also mix a gray from black and white, and it would be more or less indistinguishable from a gray mixed from complements, but you can't really control where a B&W gray ends up as well as you can with an optical gray, and when I'm painting indoors or out I very rarely have black on the palette anyway.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-7027170247664349892008-01-28T06:26:00.000-05:002008-01-28T06:26:00.000-05:00Thanks. I'n not sure what you mean by optical gra...Thanks. I'n not sure what you mean by optical gray. A tube color? JudyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-16241602117935293182008-01-27T19:29:00.000-05:002008-01-27T19:29:00.000-05:00Wonderful advice. Thanks so much!I'm wondering if ...Wonderful advice. Thanks so much!<BR/><BR/>I'm wondering if you do anything special to preserve your oil brushes? Do you have any tips for cleaning and preserving them? I go through them so fast, that I figure I must be doing something wrong.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-13376289829643450432008-01-27T13:42:00.000-05:002008-01-27T13:42:00.000-05:00Very interesting post. I think I will try starting...Very interesting post. I think I will try starting some paintings with a masked section of the color wheel.Tom Scholeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03209155013240441831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-59112132077385425022008-01-27T12:52:00.000-05:002008-01-27T12:52:00.000-05:00wow, im kinda new to painting with color, and i ha...wow, im kinda new to painting with color, and i have trouble connecting them up (if that makes any sense at all)into a meaningful color scheme, I think your methods can help a beginner like me choose a palette without accidentally going all over the place.C. Bontragerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09133512270936939541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-1190522675960028392008-01-27T12:46:00.000-05:002008-01-27T12:46:00.000-05:00A lot of thoughtful and helpful comments, thanks t...A lot of thoughtful and helpful comments, thanks to all of you! <BR/><BR/>First off, I don't mind at all if you give links in your comments. Please do. The Briggs one was terrific, thanks Adam. Also, it's fine to link to your own blog or website. In fact I wish there was a better forum for you to show your own work and experiments. Is there some way to do this? (I'm very primitive with the internet.)<BR/><BR/>Victor, I'm really intrigued by your idea of a computer program that could do color scheme mapping. It would be helpful to see a "color wheel histogram" that plotted the actual shape, just the way Photoshop gives us a value scale histogram in "Levels." Just seeing those value histograms have revolutionized my thinking as artist. <BR/><BR/>Adam and Eric: next week I'll share a bunch of different mask shapes that you can move around, and it sounds like you've figured a way to do that digitally.<BR/><BR/>Michael, Brian, Frank, and Gringo, I appreciate your kind words, and I think the insights you folks offer are what make this blog fun, and it's a learning experience for me, too. <BR/><BR/>Judy: to gray down the colors, I think I mixed an optical gray and mixed it into each of the primaries in varying amounts, though you could use a B+W gray--or mix the whole thing with complements—-and it would work just as well. My wheel isn't very scientific, and the steps aren't very even; I'm sure if you make a wheel you can measure the increments more carefully than I did!James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-50304207835704247332008-01-27T11:10:00.000-05:002008-01-27T11:10:00.000-05:00well, all I gotta say is thanks. Like 13-15 years ...well, all I gotta say is thanks. Like 13-15 years ago your Dinotopia book was the first spark I recieved in wanting to become an illustrator/designer, and it's good to see that you are much more open minded about your methods than most famous illustrators out there.. which is very admirable. Thanks again!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10628811617256542161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-10484597055704461652008-01-27T10:20:00.000-05:002008-01-27T10:20:00.000-05:00Very interesting. You have illustrated it so well ...Very interesting. You have illustrated it so well with your examples. <BR/>It seems that one could use a few pieces of paper that could be moved around and change the size and shape of the hole until you found your palette.Frank Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02011564146411771531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-40762011859980707392008-01-27T08:51:00.000-05:002008-01-27T08:51:00.000-05:00I agree with Judy, this is the most helpful blog o...I agree with Judy, this is the most helpful blog on the net. I'm a bit mystified by the shapes, are they limitless or do you see a set number of colour scheme shapes?You really have a renaissance spirit.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375615378259386972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-17690824162154259932008-01-27T06:12:00.000-05:002008-01-27T06:12:00.000-05:00Probably the most helpful blog on the net! JudyProbably the most helpful blog on the net! JudyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-28731267715349089162008-01-27T06:11:00.000-05:002008-01-27T06:11:00.000-05:00Yes! Thanks again, your blog is so helpful. When ...Yes! Thanks again, your blog is so helpful. When you painted the color wheel, how did you de-intensify the colors? Did you add grays? JudyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-63753605471045065352008-01-27T01:41:00.000-05:002008-01-27T01:41:00.000-05:00Fantastic information. A friend of mine is working...Fantastic information. A friend of mine is working on paintings with limited pallets and so this hits home.<BR/><BR/>I am looking forward to trying the techniques with some paintings I want to do.<BR/><BR/>Brian<BR/><A HREF="http://www.atomicbearpress.com" REL="nofollow"/>Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01789094236183502398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-66073298852031670662008-01-27T01:35:00.000-05:002008-01-27T01:35:00.000-05:00Wow. Your explanations of color are amazing, espec...Wow. Your explanations of color are amazing, especially the Color Wheel Masking! Those paintings seem so much more attainable in a design sense when you explain it!<BR/><BR/>Absolutely amazing, thanks for sharing!Michael Damboldthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13141514622593774503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-15079954142515898352008-01-27T01:12:00.000-05:002008-01-27T01:12:00.000-05:00victor: I believe google is close to completing it...victor: I believe google is close to completing its new image search tool, which lets you upload or link an image and then it will search for you to find the name of the artwork, identify its subject matter, search for images with the same colour scheme, etc etc. I forget where I heard about it though, sorry. And i dont know if it will be part of their website or a downloadable app like sketchup either. Should be fun though. As for an addon program, there are programs that allow you to create a static image that 'floats' over your whole screen - if you had your colour wheel open in photoshop or painter you could effectively create a mask in the float program to cover your wheel as you wanted :)<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, I also have a colour wheel swatch pallette for photoshop, if anyone wants it just shoot me an email... sorry for the hijack James!Adam Paquettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15627846342207588218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-28076363786603167862008-01-27T01:06:00.000-05:002008-01-27T01:06:00.000-05:00This is a fantastic way to see how your colours ar...This is a fantastic way to see how your colours are working in a visceral and direct way. Very helpful for understanding the 'statement' your colours are making. It would also be interesting to define what sort of mask shapes have what sort of effect on your schemes (for instance, creating a banana shaped mask and then seeing what this shape produces as rotated around the wheel). Perhaps that is what you will be looking at in your upcoming posts - I very much look forward to them. I will create my wheel, one in oil and one digital, after work today and will be standing by for further instructions :P <BR/><BR/>Also, if you havn't come across it yet, one of my old lecturers at Julian Ashtons in Sydney, David Briggs, has a great colour theory website and he uses quite an interesting way of mapping colours. I thought you would get a kick out of it. Hope you dont mind me linking elsewhere on here:<BR/>www.huevaluechroma.comAdam Paquettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15627846342207588218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-83731534246989204962008-01-27T01:03:00.000-05:002008-01-27T01:03:00.000-05:00Wow. This is some brilliant stuff. I imagine that ...Wow. This is some brilliant stuff. I imagine that less representational, more abstract art would need a mask with more than one cutout. <BR/><BR/>Someone should write a computer program (if it doesn't already exist) where a user could define a color wheel mask and then have the computer search through a database of artwork for images that have a matching color scheme. Or maybe the program could take the mask and apply it to a pre-existing image, keeping the same color relationships, but just "biasing" the hues towards the selected color scheme. <BR/><BR/>An software interface based on color wheel masking might an interesting tool for artists, designers and art directors.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16334033221403464054noreply@blogger.com