The Munsell Student Color Set

[Linda Ciallelo]

Marvin,
I see what you're saying. It organizes ones thoughts in such a way that the problem can be "worked on" constructively, in a way that is better than trial and error. Since most of what we do is ask ourselves "what's wrong with this painting"? the Munsell system gives some concrete answers by breaking the color down into different parts so that the problem is more easily identified. It's more like Math. :-)

[Steven Sweeney]

Membership and participation has changed a lot over the years and not everyone is aware of a lot of interesting threads of yore.

The hue/value/chroma analytical process has often come up, perhaps more focused in this thread --

http://forum.portraitartist.com/showthread.php?t=2277

-- than anywhere else. Worth a review in connection with this discussion.

[Steven Sweeney]

I must have been very lucky, many years before I undertook any formal training, to have acquired a modest little second-hand book

[Linda Ciallelo]

Like Garth Herrick once said " the most important thing is to have a good reference".