tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post4145413290878211232..comments2024-03-28T16:36:12.581-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: Part 3, Gamut Masking MethodJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-54189331771478313622018-10-07T18:04:26.186-04:002018-10-07T18:04:26.186-04:00James, just a quick heads-up that Krita's newe...James, just a quick heads-up that Krita's newest preview version now includes your gamut masking as a new feature!<br /><br />https://krita.org/en/item/looking-forward-to-krita-4-2/Rayekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16310257917614830855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-59327171480326935152016-10-23T15:30:11.589-04:002016-10-23T15:30:11.589-04:00James, your work on gamut mapping is fantastic. Th...James, your work on gamut mapping is fantastic. Thank you! The sections in your Color and Light book were awesome but it felt like the tip of an iceberg. I bet a whole book could be written on palette design using gamut mapping with an in-depth analysis of how different shapes and positions on the wheel affect the perception and mood of the image. If you've written more on the subject elsewhere, please direct me to it. Otherwise, please post more articles about this on your blog!Robin H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12519266671879332784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-3342399313021939932016-02-18T08:02:06.013-05:002016-02-18T08:02:06.013-05:00Alexander, when painting with physical paint, you ...Alexander, when painting with physical paint, you don't need to use cyan, magenta, and yellow. You rarely need those full strength colors, especially not all in one painting. You can begin restricting the gamut by using, say, yellow ochre for your yellow or burnt sienna for your red. But once you have chosen your gamut, you mix a variety of values of each of your principle colors. You can also mix batches of colors you will be using a lot so you don't run out. Doing this premixing saves time later when you're painting.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-50402445505280832322016-02-18T01:58:48.081-05:002016-02-18T01:58:48.081-05:00So, say that i am using only Cyan, Magenta, Skin, ...So, say that i am using only Cyan, Magenta, Skin, Yellow, black and white as my color base.<br />From there on, i went ahead to create a color gamut with dark tones to lightest tone, maybe some extent of harsh rim light alternatives and richer, more saturated shadow hue.<br /><br />Question is um, i am using poster paint sakura, as watercolor of sorts, with light washes and some dry brushing.<br /><br />I often encountered problem when my paint runs out so, when i try to recreate the same color, it probably miss slightly of the right hue, often times alot. <br />The same problem also happen when i work digitally, while the gamut is probably correct,<br />the colour is...somewhat too precise that it misses the intended feeling....<br /><br />I'm not very good at explaining my problem but i alternate my work between traditional and digital painting, relying on watercolor medium and thought process alot because it is efficient...<br />So, using this gamut thing will definitely help me alot but i'm very much confused on how to control it, and deviate a little while creating the effects i need?Help?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-42147259335970390462015-07-13T18:59:58.967-04:002015-07-13T18:59:58.967-04:00Mark, yes, in a general sort of way. Think warm, g...Mark, yes, in a general sort of way. Think warm, glowing colors and lighting to suggest warmer feelings, and cold or gray schemes to evoke moods of depression, dread, or isolation. Big gamuts to suggest happy, bright moods. These mappings are fairly general, and depend on a lot of other compositional factors.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-18381609575300667872015-07-13T18:16:51.411-04:002015-07-13T18:16:51.411-04:00Mr. Gurney, conceptually, if you are planning an ...Mr. Gurney, conceptually, if you are planning an illustration and want to evoke, through the color gamut of the work, a certain emotion or feeling (if possible) is this something gamut masking can help with? Or is this beyond the scope?Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01232963415864036324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-66154920712395791952014-07-29T15:01:45.136-04:002014-07-29T15:01:45.136-04:00This actually a part I got a bit stuck while readi...This actually a part I got a bit stuck while reading the book, but the video and the way to go about gamut mixing solved all my questions. Really enjoying Color and Light and can't wait to apply everything I've learned so far, both traditionally and digitally. Thank you for the wonderful books you've released, the great content of this blog and for all the wonderful insight you share with us James!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01386560855295902959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-85206722386120631572013-08-28T17:49:21.717-04:002013-08-28T17:49:21.717-04:00Janet, that sounds like a great exercise. I'm ...Janet, that sounds like a great exercise. I'm so glad it's working for you. Good color really does take discipline, like walking through a candy shop and just buying one peanut cluster.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-19958328509968922172013-08-28T17:39:19.357-04:002013-08-28T17:39:19.357-04:00I forgot to add that I am following BLAST to the l...I forgot to add that I am following BLAST to the letter!Janet Oliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211855672690293121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-91927533489951598662013-08-28T17:36:30.452-04:002013-08-28T17:36:30.452-04:00I'm giving myself an intense tutorial on Gamut...I'm giving myself an intense tutorial on Gamut Masking and Mapping using your methods. Today I took a black and white photograph and traced two separate drawings of it. Then I mapped a warm gamut and mixed my colors. I wanted so badly to introduce a tube color after mixing, but I trusted your advice and curbed that desire. I'm so glad I did! There's nothing like doing something for oneself to see the value in it! Tomorrow I make the same painting using a cool gamut. Thank you a million times!Janet Oliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15211855672690293121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-80431278751893849462013-04-11T21:37:32.921-04:002013-04-11T21:37:32.921-04:00Hi James, this helped me clear up the way in which...Hi James, this helped me clear up the way in which you actually use the gamut on a painting, i.e the way in which you substitute your colours, so that the hues are basically the same, but the chroma changes, I think in your book colour and light, it wasnt clear, at least to a beginner, how to take the masked colours and for example turn one painting into a painting using those colours; what i mean is, it wasnt clear how you knew which colours to put where in your new painting, but now i can see that its pretty obvious, that if your first painting had reds, you would use the closest to reds on your gamut in the new painting, maybe it was just me that missed this? The cube illusion is unbelievable, i had to test it in photoshop, and its mindboggling, and shows the difficulty of mixing accurate colours from observations, but knowing this is alreayd useful for watching out for the same effect when actually mixing coloursMichael Tshikayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08621569693793134909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-10679736325036544712012-11-30T06:45:50.197-05:002012-11-30T06:45:50.197-05:00I really appreciate the idea behind this great pos...I really appreciate the idea behind this great post.You are doing a fine job.Keep it up. <br /><a href="http://www.digital-media-tech.com/cartoon.htm" rel="nofollow">Cartoon coloring </a>Groupdmthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07139387039591209153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-24341951411923593072012-05-10T04:05:30.808-04:002012-05-10T04:05:30.808-04:00Jack--
(B.L.A.S.T.) stands for:
Big brushes.
Larg...Jack-- <br />(B.L.A.S.T.) stands for:<br />Big brushes.<br />Large to small.<br />Accents last.<br />Soften edges.<br />Take your time.<br /><br />Or, to explain a little more:<br />1. Use the biggest brush possible for a given passage.<br />2. Paint large shapes first, followed by small shapes.<br />3. Save your tonal and chromatic accents until the last.<br />4. Try to soften any edge that doesn’t need to be sharp.<br />5. Take time to get the center of interest right.<br /><br />More at: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/01/blast-rule.htmlJames Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-57349592005822397522012-05-10T03:35:34.475-04:002012-05-10T03:35:34.475-04:00Hello Mr. Gurney,
What is the BLAST acronym you ha...Hello Mr. Gurney,<br />What is the BLAST acronym you have attached to the upper left of your palette? I couldn't make out some of the parts on it, but I'm pretty intrigued from what I could. They look like solid things to keep in mind while painting, and an excellent insight into your process!Jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-42648740024900329272012-02-22T21:15:32.404-05:002012-02-22T21:15:32.404-05:00Not usually when I paint from life. I sometimes wo...Not usually when I paint from life. I sometimes work with a pigment-limited palette at a model session. The time I use gamut masking the most is when I need to control the gamut for color scripting a long illustrated book or film. After you do it a bit, you can do it mostly in your head, mixing the strings without necessarily actually arranging the gamut masks over the color wheel.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-4398554175187709132012-02-22T21:07:07.182-05:002012-02-22T21:07:07.182-05:00Sir, do you also use gamut when painting from life...Sir, do you also use gamut when painting from life? Or is it only applicable to paintings that are done from imagination?Schniderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13410638837932837134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-50121838091179730952011-09-24T18:20:33.124-04:002011-09-24T18:20:33.124-04:00Diane, you're quite right, and that's a ve...Diane, you're quite right, and that's a very insightful question. <br /><br />Theoretically you can choose any two color notes from the infinite variety on the color wheel. The intermediate mixtures from those two color notes should in theory be located on a straight line between those "primary" color notes. In practice, though, that line is often not straight, because of the behavior of paint pigments. <br /><br />So I'd say, yes, you can do whatever you need to do to mix the colors that you actually find within the triangular gamut. Even with an outside assist, the resulting gamut should give your painting the harmony you want.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-92066664355998792542011-09-24T15:56:07.587-04:002011-09-24T15:56:07.587-04:00Recently I've been studying limited color pale...Recently I've been studying limited color palettes and have really enjoyed this ides of the Gamut masking method here and in your excellent book, Color and Light, but I have a question. I see how you pick three colors to be your "primaries" and then make a triangle mask, but I noticed that within that gamut triangle there are sometimes colors that could not be mixed with the three chosen colors that formed the triangle mask. For instance, in your video you chose the dull red and dull green and blue, but within the mask I saw a magenta that could not have been made with the colors you chose. Can you use any color that appears within the mask even if it isn't one that could be mixed with the chosen colors that made the mask, or is it better to stick to the chosen "primaries"?Diane Dawson Hearnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230481088873517242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-5971746305418619252011-09-20T17:14:24.345-04:002011-09-20T17:14:24.345-04:00So great to see your working method and to have th...So great to see your working method and to have these concepts explained so well...Do I see a DVD release in the future?Mark Henghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05872172199243865094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-81125689866908042082011-09-20T16:04:57.073-04:002011-09-20T16:04:57.073-04:00Awesome video James.. thanks for posting this and ...Awesome video James.. thanks for posting this and it is great to see some of your technique in action!!Michael Pieczonkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03564760964865130176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-23413384533278233352011-09-20T13:08:14.637-04:002011-09-20T13:08:14.637-04:00This theory will same me a lot of $$$ in the futur...This theory will same me a lot of $$$ in the future. I used to eyeball my colors, which can sometimes results to a lot of 'useless' paint. Danke a bunch!SEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973124594477337066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-13126997935571998952011-09-19T17:52:51.387-04:002011-09-19T17:52:51.387-04:00This is gonna help a lot for my underwater scene I...This is gonna help a lot for my underwater scene I was struggling a lot. Thank you very much.Euna Kwonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01113818058654038288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-67104971705193003712011-09-19T07:46:18.574-04:002011-09-19T07:46:18.574-04:00Great to read/watch this post.
interesting and he...Great to read/watch this post. <br />interesting and helpful as always<br /><br />Cheers for posting such an inspiring blog!Sean Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03710350722609397310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-80055288884901961472011-09-18T15:40:18.269-04:002011-09-18T15:40:18.269-04:00Extraordinary clear explanation! It helped me unde...Extraordinary clear explanation! It helped me understanding things that I would do (but very awkwardly) without truly understanding.<br />I think this video will help me through my next experimentations in colour.<br /><br />Thanks a lot.Mathiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15107065660402419816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-48676118911850834132011-09-17T12:54:04.187-04:002011-09-17T12:54:04.187-04:00Don, if you try couleur.org, by P. Colantoni, ther...Don, if you try couleur.org, by P. Colantoni, there's a digital interface (Windows only, I think) that lets you upload a jpeg and play with various ways of visualizing the gamut, including in three dimensions. <br /><br />I've done a few posts about it, and on my YouTube channel, there's a video of some of the 3D gamut animations revolving in space. It's definitely mindbending.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.com