Thank you Marcus for responding. Greying down the surrounding areas makes sense.
Since no one else seems to have an answer as of yet, I did some reading and here is what I found.
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Source: Problem Solving for Oil Painters
1. A picture gains in impact when you reduce the number of its values.
2. How do we know when s.th is really bright?
a. It is high in the value scale and high in intensity.
b. it burns out the surrounding areas, making dark things brighter. (halo effect)
3. Use pure color - straight out of the tube vividness.
4. Bright Red looks brighter if a red glow emenates from it. Yellow looks more yellow if it permeates the atmosphere around it. The message being that this color is so intense the air is saturated with it.
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But what do you do if you have a dark brown or dark blue, dark green etc. If you lighten those with white to bring them up in value they no longer look vibrant or with high intensity.
With brown I usally go for Orange to give it punch, but I just stumbled on that one and I am wondering if there is not some sort of way that applies to all colors when it comes to intensifying chroma.