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Old 09-20-2007, 12:22 PM   #30
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I find that images used as examples are much easier to understand than words. If one is using "words", it takes me a while to translate into an image in my mind. When one says"high chroma" or "hue" one is always not quite sure what the speaker has in mind. Everything is relative. People have been telling me for years that my paintings are "gray" and "flat". For a few years I had no idea what they meant. Sharon's examples demonstrate with most simplicity exactly what that means. And one has to always ask, gray and flat compared to what? Any time another artist says something about my work, the first thing I do is find an example of their work , so I can see where they're coming from. It drove me crazy that I was using cadmiums and vermillion and people were still telling me that my paintings were "gray".
People have different ideas of what is warm or cool also. Any time you say for instance "earth red" or "paynes gray", there can be a variety of different hues that could be called that. Talking about images can be very confusing because different people use the same words to describe different things. Posting an image as an example helps very much.
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