Saturday, January 15, 2005

Art Teachers, you're teaching color wrong.

Red, Yellow and Blue are not the pigment primary colors. Stop teaching that they are.

Our children deserve better, those colors do not mix complements as dark neutrals. They make mud. Every school child can tell you that. The Title is a link that will explain it all to you.

If you are an artist you can use my Real Color Wheel.

Here is a link to that color wheel that places all the pigments that you or I need to paint anything in front of us. Every color on this color wheel has an opposit color that will mix with it to make a neutral black and the correct shadow color to any objects local color.

These two images are examples of what can be painted with only three colors.


These same three colors are available dry for fresco, and tubed for oil, watercolor, and acrylic (if you make your own). As of the past 4 years.



Real Color Wheel Chip Chart




11 Comments:

At 12:46 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

I'm assuming this is a joke, yeah? dry humor? I don't know much about color theory, so I can't say for sure. But the three colors you named as having used in that picture sure sound a lot like red, yellow, and blue to me.

shrug. Regardless, interesting enough. Have a great day in Hawaii, where things are pleasant.

by
mr strauss
pop goes lethal

 
At 1:37 AM, Blogger Gill said...

Hi Don, Your blog is my 'blog of the day' today over on http://sometimesitspeaceful.blogspot.com

 
At 12:50 PM, Blogger Don Jusko, Artist on Location said...

Hi Mr. Strause,

The three color primary in my color wheel are:
Transparent yellow, magenta and cyan.
Magenta and yellow mix red. Magenta and cyan mix blue.
These primaries can not be made with red, yellow and blue.
You were taught wrong. Get mad.

Don

 
At 2:01 PM, Blogger Don Jusko, Artist on Location said...

mr strauss wrote:
yellow, magenta and cyan, huh.

Well, I do visual arts occasionally, but I don't really work with paint, so I don't real intuitively feel the whole color thing.

But isn't cyan a shade of blue?
No, blue is a shade of cyan. Cyan and magenta mix to blue.

And isn't magenta a shade of red?

Same thing, you can see why we have such poor artists, from Pacasso onward artists have not understood how to mix colors correctly.

And isn't transparent counterindicative to every color, including yellow? ;-)

Pigments are either opaque, translucent or transparent. Opaque colors are like colored rocks, transparent pigments are like colored glass.

also, tell me how to make good art, and how to distinguish it from bad art.

Good art is a discipline that needs practice, basically, if one can't paint an accurate portrait or tree it's not as good as one painted by an artist that can.

If you just want some color to hang over your couch you don't really need art, anyone with a spray could fit your needs. That's not good art, it's only decoration, wall paper in a frame.

Poor artists tent to scream loudest to make sales, i.e. Pacasso is the prime example of this hoax on good artists to a public that had been out of touch with good artists since the start of the wars in 1876.

thanks,

e
I'm putting this post in the comments on my blog, respond there if you would, or care to.
Don

 
At 3:01 PM, Blogger Rosie said...

you're totally right, of course. I studied at Bradford college of art (UK) in the 1980's and was taught the true colour wheel by a visiting lecturer from the colour museum in Bradford. I also studied colour at Huddersfield Uni and now its computerised i think people are beginning to get it! I have painted with the 3 process colours in acrylics, plus white-, and I use these colours for my children's painting so they can understand about colour mixing from the start.

 
At 11:50 PM, Blogger Don Jusko, Artist on Location said...

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At 11:58 PM, Blogger Don Jusko, Artist on Location said...

Yes Rosie,
But here is a difference from what you learned in the '8o's. PR122 was used by Liquitex first in "85 I think, no other media used it. It was called Acra Crimson. Acrylic tubed paint still has no transparnet yellow, Acra Gold is the closest. PY153 is a nickle complex only used by Old Holland oil colors back then, Indian yellow original was the first great transparent yellow but that was outlawed in 1890. PB15.3 was not called that back then either, but Grumbacher and Liqutex had it as Thalo Blue.

Another difference is the progression to dark of each of these transparent colors. This is very important in the Real Color Wheel. The progression is the same as the elements crystals representing these colors. Yellow changes to brown as it goes through the ochers like the beryllium crystal and iron in the Citrine crystal. Red also changes to brown. Rembrandt had it right but no one understood what he was saying. Cyan, cobalt and ultramarine blue change to dark ult blue before black like the Iceland Spar crystal, the titanium rutile crystal and the Wavellite crystal.

For all the crystals and there color paths go here.
http://www.mauigateway.com/~donjusko/crystal.htm

This is my color wheel and I put it on the internet in 1995. Now it gets 50,000 hits a month. According to Google there are over 16,000 links to my site today.

The colors you probably used were alizarin crimson, Prussin blue and an opaque yellow. But that was a good start, better then red, yellow and blue.

 
At 3:52 PM, Blogger Don Jusko, Artist on Location said...

Hi Chloe,
Thanks for your imput, I've thought of this color wheel and the new millennium. They are both here, right now.
I hope the internet makes the change over faster.
Don

 
At 4:55 PM, Blogger Don Jusko, Artist on Location said...

I want to make two corrections,
I have a new web address,
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/
Which would mean the above post should be..
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/crystal.htm

Second,
as of 11-4-6 Real Color Wheel is getting 1.5 million hits per month!

 
At 10:01 AM, Blogger Don Jusko, Artist on Location said...

Jennie McNeely
Pen Name- Qetesh
5112 Middlesex Drive
Louisville, KY 40245
Contact- ixchel93 @ yahoo.com


March 10, 2007

Don Jusko Lahaina Giclee
840 Wainee St. E-8
Lahaina- Maui
Hawaii 96761

Subject: Review of Real Color Wheel System
Dear Mr. Jusko:
I was delighted to receive your Real Color Wheel system for review.
Below is a copy of my review for your perusal. Upon approval this will be submitted this week
to TCM reviews for publication.

Sincerely,
Jennie McNeely a.k.a Qetesh
Freelance Writer/ Reviewer


Reviewer’s Name : Qetesh
Email Address: Ixchel93 @ yahoo.com
Title of Publication: Real Color Wheel
Author: Don Jusko
Copyright- Don Jusko
Genre: Art


Artist Don Jusko has devised a new color system that will revolutionize the way artists view and use color. His system uses 36 hues that have been derived from a keen observation of nature and how the elements in crystalline structures combine to create neutral darks. This system is unique because it does not rely on black pigment to mix shadow colors, which often results in poor mixes, muddied color blends and dull lifeless tones.
He has a full training course for the New Color Wheel online at realcolorwheel.com.
You will not only learn about his color system. He has step-by-step painting instruction and tips that illustrate his proven system in action. Whether you are a photographer, digital artist, novice painter or seasoned professional, you will find something of value to enhance your work. Detailed color analysis, paint formulas used by the old masters, and aerial perspective color analysis are just a few of the many items that he provides that are invaluable to the serious artist. The beauty of this system is that it produces vibrant, correct color mixes and it is simple to learn and teach. You will not be left alone as you learn. He hosts a forum for anyone using his system where you can ask questions, gain further help and guidance as well as post your own experiences. For a meager fee you can purchase a laminated copy of his color wheel and a CD of his entire course to have on hand as valuable reference tool. This is a groundbreaking achievement for color theory that will change the way artists view and mix color.

 
At 10:02 AM, Blogger Don Jusko, Artist on Location said...

Jennie McNeely
Pen Name- Qetesh
5112 Middlesex Drive
Louisville, KY 40245
Contact- ixchel93 @ yahoo.com


March 10, 2007

Don Jusko Lahaina Giclee
840 Wainee St. E-8
Lahaina- Maui
Hawaii 96761

Subject: Review of Real Color Wheel System
Dear Mr. Jusko:
I was delighted to receive your Real Color Wheel system for review.
Below is a copy of my review for your perusal. Upon approval this will be submitted this week
to TCM reviews for publication.

Sincerely,
Jennie McNeely a.k.a Qetesh
Freelance Writer/ Reviewer


Reviewer’s Name : Qetesh
Email Address: Ixchel93 @ yahoo.com
Title of Publication: Real Color Wheel
Author: Don Jusko
Copyright- Don Jusko
Genre: Art


Artist Don Jusko has devised a new color system that will revolutionize the way artists view and use color. His system uses 36 hues that have been derived from a keen observation of nature and how the elements in crystalline structures combine to create neutral darks. This system is unique because it does not rely on black pigment to mix shadow colors, which often results in poor mixes, muddied color blends and dull lifeless tones.
He has a full training course for the New Color Wheel online at realcolorwheel.com.
You will not only learn about his color system. He has step-by-step painting instruction and tips that illustrate his proven system in action. Whether you are a photographer, digital artist, novice painter or seasoned professional, you will find something of value to enhance your work. Detailed color analysis, paint formulas used by the old masters, and aerial perspective color analysis are just a few of the many items that he provides that are invaluable to the serious artist. The beauty of this system is that it produces vibrant, correct color mixes and it is simple to learn and teach. You will not be left alone as you learn. He hosts a forum for anyone using his system where you can ask questions, gain further help and guidance as well as post your own experiences. For a meager fee you can purchase a laminated copy of his color wheel and a CD of his entire course to have on hand as valuable reference tool. This is a groundbreaking achievement for color theory that will change the way artists view and mix color.

 

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