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My simple method . . .
How interesting to read all these approaches to color. Color has, and continues to "bug" me. Like doing push-up, or sit-up, however, it gets a little easier the more you do it.
I learned what seem like a simple, but workeable solution in studying with Daniel Greene. His approach is this, whether painting portraits, still life, or whatever:
He looks at his subject to decide value, then whether it's warm or cool, and then whether it's on the yellow side or the blue side.
Painting and color are, to some degree, subjective, and my eye doesn't see color like your eye. So, it seems to me that if we were all standing side by side, painting a still life, we might not see the same identical color/value/degree of warmth, BUT, we would see a warm place as warm, and a cool place as cool, leaving us to then formulate/mix a color that would make that place in our painting correspond to that place on our model. In the end, if we kept our color/value/temp in the right areas, we should end up with a satisfying painting -- theoretically. :-)
I once had an instructor who had this large banner hanging in front of the room that read: DON'T THINK . . . PAINT!
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