Neat picture I got on one of my walks that I wanted to share and of course lied to myself saying I will paint it some day along with my other thousands of reference photos LOL
Also, below is kind of a journal of my findings the last few days regarding color wheels, pigments, primaries, and researching James Gurney's painting techniques.
The last couple of days I've been forced to rest more because of hand pain. However, I decided to watch more videos on triads and do deeper research on colors. That way I could still feel like I was working towards my goals. I ended up buying James Gurney's book on Color and Light (highly recommend) the last two pictures are of color wheels from the book.
From his book I learned about two other color wheels and it changed the way I look at colors and helped so much! As James said, more paintings are ruined by having too bright of colors than greys - which has definitely felt like the case recently with my art.
Specifically, I love that the two other color wheels are more proportional and include concepts from other industries rather than just the art industry. At this point I don't know why they teach the traditional color wheel anymore, it's misleading. Both of these methods will help in all my pursuits in the future and I'm excited to study them more!
The Munsell Wheel (also the Munsell System which helps with Chroma / Intensity - it's actually more of a 3D model)
Yurmby Wheel
I felt ecstatic and validated to find James talking about the same thing I was in this post and this post. Specifically he said to choose CMY primary pigments like I spoke about like this:
Cadmium Yellow Light (PY 35)
Quinacridone Magenta (PR 122)
Phthalo Cyan (PB 17)
Since there's color variations within companies for the M. Graham Gouache my line up is as follows
Hansa Yellow (PY 3) - there IS a Cadmium Yellow Light so I think I'll switch to it in the future but I don't currently have it. Hansa is brighter and less opaque than the Cad Yellow Light (PY 35). Personally from my tests I think the Hansa comes off as cooler. Financially the Cad Yellow would be better for mixing since it's more opaque but the Hansa would be good for yellow emphasis and cooler schemes. I also have Azo Yellow (PY 151) but this is a warmer yellow than the Cad Yellow
Quinacridone Rose (PV 19) - closest M. Graham Gouache to magenta
Phthalocyanine Blue (PB 15:3) - closest M. Graham Gouache to James's recommendation.
