Petrified Wood

W Elm Street, Durant, Oklahoma.

so here's the secret: this is absolutely not oil paint. if you check the og tags the night i first posted this, i mentioned it a little bit, but i start-to-finished this piece in an hour. someday when I mellow out a little bit i might try oil painting again, but until then, we're sticking with stuff that goes on quicker and dirtier and lets me move on between closing one work shift and opening another.

The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other. 

Outside: the purest/brightest colours.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: the lines connect colors that are opposites, if you mix them you neutralize the tone creating clean grays or browns instead of muddy puddles.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that it's yet another color wheel that insists that red and green as complimentary colors. this is not correct.

let's look at a science based pigment picker wheel instead.

this is what a science based color wheel looks like. feel free to read more about it and find out what all those pigments mean here.

we set artists up for failure when we tell them the three most vital color wheel points (aka the closest things we have to true "primary" colors) are anything other than Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.

The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other. 

Outside: the purest/brightest colours.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: the lines connect colors that are opposites, if you mix them you neutralize the tone creating clean grays or browns instead of muddy puddles.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that it's yet another color wheel that insists that red and green as complimentary colors. this is not correct.

let's look at a science based pigment picker wheel instead.

this is what a science based color wheel looks like. feel free to read more about it and find out what all those pigments mean here.

we set artists up for failure when we tell them the three most vital color wheel points (aka the closest things we have to true "primary" colors) are anything other than Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.

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