The video recording is now available on the Colour Society of Australia YouTube – NSW Division channel, and like all of the webinars from our Creating Colours series, it will remain permanently available to the public.
Jean produced and presented a wonderful presentation discussing how oil pigments work and the challenges we face as oil painters working with them.
We had an amazing response – with registrants from 19 countries. Topics covered outlined below:
- Deciphering labelling on paint tubes (pigment codes, ‘Permanence’, ‘Opacity’, additives)
- Colour spaces and basic language for talking about paints, their colours and handling: Munsell, NCS, hue, value, chroma, saturation; rheology
- Single paints: (Paint is not the same as Colour!) Mass tone, undertone.
- Two-paint mixing: “tints”, “shades”, “tones”, combinations of chromatic paints, pitfalls and opportunities when using complementaries to reduce chroma. High and low-chroma mixing curves.
- Three-paint mixing; how to produce all possible hues. Triples that give “good”/high chroma hue circles. Beginning to think about palettes.
- Palettes: issues to consider when constructing and evaluating your own palette. (This talk will be “palette agnostic” – no particular palette is being presented as being the best, rather tools are provided for painters to think about the palette that best suits their needs and skills at the time.)
- Basic colour matching.