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An Eye for Color
Mike,
There are people who have an eye for color, like Mozart. My best friend Bill is an example. He works mainly with an understanding of complements and that is all. No pedestrian Munsell systems to clog the intuitive flow of color on his canvas. Early Asian art has the most sophisticated and subtle color, yet I can find no complicated Chinese color charts to explain it.
Working with a system like Munsell shortcircuits the unconcious part of the brain which probably is the artists' greatest painting tool. It is like translating a direct experience with color into a foreign langauge and retranslating it onto the canvas. In other words, the intellectual faculties get in the way and you lose your direct visceral feel for the color The results are usually rather ordinary and do not allow for the unexpected and delicious color harmonies that come from being totally one with color.
Sincerely,
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