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From: Cennini <cennini@studioproducts.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:37 AM
Subject: Color Insights
To: Jeremy Holton <jeremy@jeremyholton.com>

	STUDIO PRODUCTS COLOR INSIGHTS  Spatial relationships of color -- weight, shape and placement -- create depth in a picture. Contrary to the old color dictum, not all reds come forward and not all blues recede.

COLOR INSIGHTS Push-Pull and Color Weights

Push-Pull A  color theory enabling you to take colors which come forward and other colors which recede and control them to make the warm colors go back and the cool colors come forward. It's mainly done by modifying the Chromas and edge control ...although there's much more to it than that. Below are two demos to show it in use ...allowing the artist the control to move colors anywhere in space. Traditional color theories can't explain this. It's like the bumblebee that engineers say shouldn't be able to fly...but it does. Bumblebees won't listen to engineers. As a teen, I had the opportunity to study with Hans Hofmann. Over the years I have been able to apply many of his color ideas to realist painting. While color theories are best mastered by doing abstractions, the lessons can be applied to realist and figurative work. The cool figure has the cigarette stay in the right space rather than jumping forward. It's the only warm in the picture...or is it? Color Weight The term "color weight" is a psychological term defining the way we perceive color. If I paint identical blocks, one a rich red and the other a white, the  red block will appear to be heavier to most people. Some of the perception of weight has to do with Value, and some has to do with Chroma. Red appears heaviest, followed by deep blue then orange, yellow and finally white. So how do these perceptual colors work in pictorial painting? In the above example: the dark colors on top make the stick look less stable than when the light colors are on top. The dark-on-top stick looks as though it could tilt and fall. From this simple observation to Push-Pull is a journey of study and quiet contemplation --  this Zen-like state is very important to the study of color because color "comes to you" and cannot be bludgeoned with tenacious study.  You cannot study many aspects of art as you would accountancy.  It does not reveal itself to a rational approach because it involves that portion of the brain that is not linear. PBS did an informative film on the life of my former teacher and you can see some of it online. The most engaging part is the Push & Pull Puzzle. For more information, visit The Cennini Forum and the Art Bootcamp online.

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