Interactive Demos
Study# 1986 - Red Fishing Boat in Cove
Study# 0014 - Fishing Boat and Dory
Look! There's Color in those Shadows
Perhaps you heard your art teacher say "Look! There's color in those shadows" or "put a touch of yellow in those highlights". Could you see color? Could you really tell what the colors were? Did you know why to add yellow.
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Study# 1986 - Red Fishing Boat in Cove
It's Richer... not Lighter!
Here's one that fools many. It's the "richer seems lighter" trap. We call it a trap because this particular illusion can fool our mind's eye into misreading color "values".
Here's what happens. The illusion is created when certain viewing conditions cause rich colors to look much lighter than what they really are. Consequently, if the artist is trying to capture realistic lighting, they make the "value" level of those areas too light.
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