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Old 04-25-2004, 08:56 AM   #1
Allan Rahbek Allan Rahbek is offline
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Loving colors, as I do, is one thing, but choosing what you need is another.

The color industry is of course pushing the needs of various
tubes of colors you can not live without.

But basically there is only three colors you can not live without, yellow, red and blue. Fore painting you will need White and maybe black too.

My point is that to many color tubes will tempt the painter to choose the specific color as they are right from the tube, with a very limited tonal range as the result.

To compare with another instrument, there is the piano. I am not sure how many keys there are, because I don
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